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title: Two dads shout over a parking space outside school, «You weren't, yo… — Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shop… · tree and pragmatics
description: Two dads shout over a parking space outside school, «You weren't, you clown!», and one of them is Kieran's dad. Who acts: Two dads, you, one. 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
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# Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper, sentence 16

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Two dads shout over a parking space outside school, «You weren't, you clown!», and one of them is Kieran's dad.

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**Who acts:** Two dads, you, one · **What happens:** shout, be · **To what, where:** parking space, clown, dad · **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 dads, you, one), 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:16
# text = Two dads shout over a parking space outside school, «You weren't, you clown!», and one of them is Kieran's dad.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	dads	dad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shout	shout	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	parking	parking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
12	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	clown	clown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | Two dads |  |  | a parking space outside school |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | you | clown |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | one of ups | Kieran's dad |  |  |  |  | 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:everyday:483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.lesson:16`.

**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 ×2. **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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