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title: Asking calmly for a deal, like a later bedtime at weekends, works be… — Warm parents and strict parents · tree and pragmatics
description: Asking calmly for a deal, like a later bedtime at weekends, works better than shouting. Who acts: Asking. A sentence of the lesson «Warm parents and strict parents» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Warm parents and strict parents, sentence 33

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Asking calmly for a deal, like a later bedtime at weekends, works better than shouting.

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**Who acts:** Asking · **What happens:** ask, work, shout

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Warm parents and strict parents» 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 (Asking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:493-warm-parents-and-strict-parents.lesson:33
# text = Asking calmly for a deal, like a later bedtime at weekends, works better than shouting.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 493-warm-parents-and-strict-parents.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	Asking	ask	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	csubj	_	_
2	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	later	late	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	weekends	weekend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
16	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for a deal; like a later bedtime at weekends; calmly *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **work** | present | Asking |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | Asking *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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:493-warm-parents-and-strict-parents.lesson:33`.

**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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