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title: Parking rows are common, and knocking politely usually works better… — Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness · tree and pragmatics
description: Parking rows are common, and knocking politely usually works better than an angry note. Who acts: Parking rows, knocking. A sentence of the lesson «Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness, sentence 13

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Parking rows are common, and knocking politely usually works better than an angry note.

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**Who acts:** Parking rows, knocking · **What happens:** be, knock, work

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness» of the adult life 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 (Parking rows, knocking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:033-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness.lesson:13
# text = Parking rows are common, and knocking politely usually works better than an angry note.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 033-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Parking	parking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	knocking	knock	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj
8	politely	politely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod
9	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Parking rows |  |  |  |  | common *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **knock** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | politely *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **work** | present | knocking |  |  |  |  | than a angry note; usually, well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «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:adult-life:033-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness.lesson:13`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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.

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

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