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title: Dad says it was a fence, or a dog, or a parked car: «They probably d… — Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shop… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dad says it was a fence, or a dog, or a parked car: «They probably don't know either, son.» At Mrs Kowalski's funeral, Mr Shaw turns up in his best suit and shakes Mr Kowalski's hand. Who acts: Dad, other, fence, Mr Shaw. A sentence of the lesson «Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeep
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# Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper, sentence 3

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Dad says it was a fence, or a dog, or a parked car: «They probably don't know either, son.» At Mrs Kowalski's funeral, Mr Shaw turns up in his best suit and shakes Mr Kowalski's hand.

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**Who acts:** Dad, other, fence, Mr Shaw · **What happens:** say, be, park, not know, turn up, shake · **To what, where:** fence, funeral, hand · **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 (Dad, other, fence, Mr Shaw), 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:3
# text = Dad says it was a fence, or a dog, or a parked car: «They probably don't know either, son.» At Mrs Kowalski's funeral, Mr Shaw turns up in his best suit and shakes Mr Kowalski's hand.
# 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	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	parked	park	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
18	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
23	either	either	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
25	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	vocative	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
27	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
28	At	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	_
30	Kowalski	Kowalski	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	_
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
32	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
34	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Shaw	Shaw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
37	up	up	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	41	amod	_	_
41	suit	suit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	shakes	shake	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
44	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	nmod:poss	_	_
45	Kowalski	Kowalski	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	flat	_	_
46	's	's	PART	POS	_	44	case	_	_
47	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Dad |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | other | a fence or a dog or a parked car |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **park** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | present · do-support | fence |  |  |  |  | son *vocative*; either, probably *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **turn up** | present | Mr Shaw |  |  | Mrs's funeral |  | in Dad's best suit | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at funeral=Location |
| 6 | **shake** | present | Mr Shaw *not said here* | Mr's hand |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |

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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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**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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