--- title: Let's keep it that way — just a name, not a record.» His mum didn't… — When the police come · tree and pragmatics description: Let's keep it that way — just a name, not a record.» His mum didn't speak to him all evening, which was worse than shouting. Who acts: you, 's, mum, evening. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 's, mum, evening), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:384-when-the-police-come.lesson:7 # text = Let's keep it that way — just a name, not a record.» His mum didn't speak to him all evening, which was worse than shouting. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 384-when-the-police-come.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 's we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 det _ _ 6 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 xcomp _ _ 7 — - PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 just just ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 record record NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:appos 15 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_ 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ 17 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ _ 24 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 25 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 parataxis _ _ 30 than than SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 31 shouting shout VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | 's | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **keep** | infinitive | 's *not said here* | name | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past · do-support | Kieran's mum | | Kieran | | evening | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | all evening | | | | | bad *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **shout** *speech: express* *in a quote* | gerund | all evening *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:384-when-the-police-come.lesson:7`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [When the police come, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/384-when-the-police-come/4/) - next →: [When the police come, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/384-when-the-police-come/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/384-when-the-police-come/)