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title: In Birmingham, after a row about homework, Dhruv's mum shouts and hi… — Shouty parents and bad days · tree and pragmatics
description: In Birmingham, after a row about homework, Dhruv's mum shouts and his dad says nothing all evening, and Dhruv doesn't know which is worse. Who acts: mum, dad, Dhruv. A sentence of the lesson «Shouty parents and bad days» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Shouty parents and bad days, sentence 12

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In Birmingham, after a row about homework, Dhruv's mum shouts and his dad says nothing all evening, and Dhruv doesn't know which is worse.

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**Who acts:** mum, dad, Dhruv · **What happens:** shout, say, not know, be · **To what, where:** Birmingham, nothing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Shouty parents and bad days» 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 (mum, dad, Dhruv), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:494-shouty-parents-and-bad-days.lesson:12
# text = In Birmingham, after a row about homework, Dhruv's mum shouts and his dad says nothing all evening, and Dhruv doesn't know which is worse.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 494-shouty-parents-and-bad-days.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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Birmingham	Birmingham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	homework	homework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	Dhruv	Dhruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	17	obj	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	Dhruv	Dhruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=17:conj
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	ccomp	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | Dhruv's mum |  |  | Birmingham | after a row about homework |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Dhruv's dad | nothing |  |  | evening |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | Dhruv |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | 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:494-shouty-parents-and-bad-days.lesson:12`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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/).

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