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title: Scene: in Auckland, Dad stands over three bins holding a yoghurt pot… — Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness · tree and pragmatics
description: Scene: in Auckland, Dad stands over three bins holding a yoghurt pot: «Which one does this go in?» Then he finds a note on the car: «You've parked across my drive AGAIN!» He grumbles, then knocks next door and sorts it out in two minutes. Who acts: Dad, this, Scene, You. A sentence of the lesson «Ne
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# Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness, sentence 5

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Scene: in Auckland, Dad stands over three bins holding a yoghurt pot: «Which one does this go in?» Then he finds a note on the car: «You've parked across my drive AGAIN!» He grumbles, then knocks next door and sorts it out in two minutes.

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**Who acts:** Dad, this, Scene, You, my · **What happens:** stand, hold, go in, find, park, grumble · **To what, where:** Auckland, yoghurt pot, one, note, car, drive · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Dad, this, Scene, You), 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:5
# text = Scene: in Auckland, Dad stands over three bins holding a yoghurt pot: «Which one does this go in?» Then he finds a note on the car: «You've parked across my drive AGAIN!» He grumbles, then knocks next door and sorts it out in two minutes.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:outer	_	_
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Auckland	Auckland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
7	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:acl:relcl
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	bins	bin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	yoghurt	yoghurt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
16	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
17	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	18	det	_	_
18	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
19	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
24	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
25	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
34	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	_
35	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	parked	park	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:conj
38	across	across	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	drive	drive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	AGAIN	again	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
42	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
43	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
44	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	grumbles	grumble	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	48	advmod	_	_
48	knocks	knock	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:conj
49	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	sorts	sort	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	conj	_	_
53	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	_
54	out	out	ADP	RP	_	52	compound:prt	_	_
55	in	in	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	57	nummod	_	_
57	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl	_	_
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27: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 | **stand** | present | Dad |  |  | Auckland |  | over three bins | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in auckland=Location |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund | Dad *not said here* | a yoghurt pot |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme |
| 3 | **go in** *in a quote* | present · do-support | this | which one |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | present | Scene | a note |  | the car | then |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent note=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 5 | **park** *in a quote* | present · perfect | You |  |  | my drive | again |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **grumble** *speech: other* | present | Dad |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **knock** | present | Dad *not said here* | next door |  |  | then |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 8 | **sort out** | present | Dad *not said here* | door |  |  | minute |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 9 | **drive** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom drive «act transitive»: poss=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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**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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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