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title: Ha, grown-up cows drink water, calves drink milk" helps; "Haha, you'… — Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ha, grown-up cows drink water, calves drink milk" helps; "Haha, you're so dumb" just makes someone go quiet. Who acts: grown cows, calves, you, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel, sentence 6

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Ha, grown-up cows drink water, calves drink milk" helps; "Haha, you're so dumb" just makes someone go quiet.

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**Who acts:** grown cows, calves, you, someone · **What happens:** grow up, drink, help, be, make, go · **To what, where:** water, milk, someone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel» 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 (grown cows, calves, you, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel.lesson:6
# text = Ha, grown-up cows drink water, calves drink milk" helps; "Haha, you're so dumb" just makes someone go quiet.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel.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): R4-particle ×1
1	Ha	ha	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=3:compound
6	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	drink	drink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	csubj	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	calves	calf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	drink	drink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
17	Haha	haha	INTJ	UH	_	22	discourse	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	dumb	dumb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	csubj	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	just	just	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
26	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	25	obj	_	_
27	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **drink** | present | grown cows | water |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
| 3 | **drink** | present | calves | milk |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient |
| 4 | **help** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | dumb *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **make** *in a quote* | present |  | someone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | someone *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel.lesson:6`.

**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): R4-particle ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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