--- title: An accent shows where someone grew up or learned the language; mocki… — Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry · tree and pragmatics description: An accent shows where someone grew up or learned the language; mocking it is unkind. Who acts: accent, someone, mocking. A sentence of the lesson «Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/355-the-coach-the-lollipop-lady-slammed-doors-and-sorry/20/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/355-the-coach-the-lollipop-lady-slammed-doors-and-sorry/) / 20 # Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry, sentence 20 An accent shows where someone grew up or learned the language; mocking it is unkind. **Who acts:** accent, someone, mocking · **What happens:** show, grow up, learn, mock, be · **To what, where:** language This is a sentence of the lesson «Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry» of the everyday 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 (accent, someone, mocking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:355-the-coach-the-lollipop-lady-slammed-doors-and-sorry.lesson:20 # text = An accent shows where someone grew up or learned the language; mocking it is unkind. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 355-the-coach-the-lollipop-lady-slammed-doors-and-sorry.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 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 accent accent NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 6 advmod _ _ 5 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 6 nsubj _ _ 6 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 learned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 13 mocking mock VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 csubj _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nsubj 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 unkind unkind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | a accent | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **grow up** | past | someone | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **learn** | past | someone *not said here* | the language | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Topic | | 4 | **mock** | gerund | | language | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | mocking | | | | | unkind *property* | tree rules | 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:everyday:355-the-coach-the-lollipop-lady-slammed-doors-and-sorry.lesson:20`. **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. **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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