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title: A parent may sound sharp for a second from shock; that is about the… — The parents walk in: how good parents react · tree and pragmatics
description: A parent may sound sharp for a second from shock; that is about the shock, not about the child being bad. Who acts: parent, that, child. A sentence of the lesson «The parents walk in: how good parents react» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The parents walk in: how good parents react, sentence 12

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A parent may sound sharp for a second from shock; that is about the shock, not about the child being bad.

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**Who acts:** parent, that, child · **What happens:** sound, be, not be · **To what, where:** shock

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The parents walk in: how good parents react» 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 (parent, that, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:059-the-parents-walk-in-how-good-parents-react.lesson:12
# text = A parent may sound sharp for a second from shock; that is about the shock, not about the child being bad.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 059-the-parents-walk-in-how-good-parents-react.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	sound	sound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:xcomp
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	shock	shock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	shock	shock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
19	about	about	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obl
22	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	cop	_	_
23	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
24	.	.	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 | **sound** | may | a parent |  |  | shock |  | for a second; sharp *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | about the shock | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** | gerund | the child |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | tree rules |

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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:059-the-parents-walk-in-how-good-parents-react.lesson:12`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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