| Discourse | Function |
| B: And we also found out why Granny was crying. | initiates |
| G2: Yeah, because she missed Pardo, and then she told Bailey, I mean Rosie, about how she never saw Pardo again after... | explains |
| B: The train incident. | supplements |
| G2: ...Yeah. When she came to America. | accepts and supplements |
| B: And she was stubborn and she never wrote letters. And she explained to Rosie where she got her stubbornness from. | extends |
| G1: I think Granny Torrelli tells stories about her stubbornness to Rosie so she wouldn’t feel as stubborn; so she’d feel a little bit better about her stubbornness. | extends and explains |
| G3: Or she tried to tell her not to be stubborn, and trying to teach her what will happen like if you’re stubborn. | challenges with alternative explanation |
| B: Yeah. Like you’ll never see Bailey again. | accepts and supplements |
| G3: Yeah. | accepts |
| B: You two will grow apart and be mad, be more mad at each other in the coming days. | explains |
| G3: Yeah. | accepts |