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title: Two old men on Sam's street, Mr Shaw and Mr Kowalski, haven't spoken… — Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shop… · tree and pragmatics
description: Two old men on Sam's street, Mr Shaw and Mr Kowalski, haven't spoken in eleven years. Who acts: Two old men. A sentence of the lesson «Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper, sentence 0

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Two old men on Sam's street, Mr Shaw and Mr Kowalski, haven't spoken in eleven years.

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**Who acts:** Two old men · **What happens:** not speak · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper» 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 (Two old men), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.lesson:0
# text = Two old men on Sam's street, Mr Shaw and Mr Kowalski, haven't spoken in eleven years.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.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): no change
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Shaw	Shaw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	Kowalski	Kowalski	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	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 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | present · perfect | Two old men on Sam's street |  |  |  | year |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.lesson:0`.

**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): no change. **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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