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title: Grandma gets it right when she laughs, "Miracle cream my foot, the o… — "It's natural so it's healthy" and the miracle c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Grandma gets it right when she laughs, "Miracle cream my foot, the only thing it removed was twenty quid from my purse": she laughs at the claim, and at herself. Who acts: Grandma, thing, only thing. A sentence of the lesson «"It's natural so it's healthy" and the miracle cure» of the world course o
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# "It's natural so it's healthy" and the miracle cure, sentence 9

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Grandma gets it right when she laughs, "Miracle cream my foot, the only thing it removed was twenty quid from my purse": she laughs at the claim, and at herself.

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**Who acts:** Grandma, thing, only thing · **What happens:** get, laugh, remove, be · **To what, where:** proof, only thing, twenty quid, purse, claim · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «"It's natural so it's healthy" and the miracle cure» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grandma, thing, only thing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:179-its-natural-so-its-healthy-and-the-miracle-cure.lesson:9
# text = Grandma gets it right when she laughs, "Miracle cream my foot, the only thing it removed was twenty quid from my purse": she laughs at the claim, and at herself.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 179-its-natural-so-its-healthy-and-the-miracle-cure.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Grandma	grandma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	right	right	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	laughs	laugh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
10	Miracle	Miracle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	removed	remove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	quid	quid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	laughs	laugh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	claim	claim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	29	conj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | Grandma | proof |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **laugh** | present | Grandma |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **remove** *in a quote* | past | thing | the only thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | the only thing | twenty quid |  | my purse |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **laugh** | present | Grandma |  |  | the claim |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:world:179-its-natural-so-its-healthy-and-the-miracle-cure.lesson:9`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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