--- title: Grumbling about a noisy party is easier than knocking, but a knock a… — Our street: who parked where and who won what · tree and pragmatics description: Grumbling about a noisy party is easier than knocking, but a knock and a kind word usually fix it. Who acts: Grumbling, knock. A sentence of the lesson «Our street: who parked where and who won what» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/41-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what/27/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Our street: who parked where and who w…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/41-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what/) / 27 # Our street: who parked where and who won what, sentence 27 Grumbling about a noisy party is easier than knocking, but a knock and a kind word usually fix it. **Who acts:** Grumbling, knock · **What happens:** grumble, be, knock, fix · **To what, where:** party This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street: who parked where and who won what» 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 (Grumbling, knock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:041-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what.lesson:27 # text = Grumbling about a noisy party is easier than knocking, but a knock and a kind word usually fix it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 041-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Grumbling grumble VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 csubj _ _ 2 about about ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 noisy noisy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 8 than than SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 knocking knock VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 knock knock NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 18 usually usually ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 fix fix VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grumble** *speech: other* | gerund | | | | | | about a noisy party | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about party=Topic | | 2 | **is** | present | Grumbling | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **knock** | gerund | Grumbling *not said here* | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **fix** | present | a knock and a kind word | party | | | | usually *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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. **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:041-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what.lesson:27`. **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, 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. 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