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title: In Belfast, Megan loses her bus pass and Mum shouts, then cries in t… — Shouty parents and bad days · tree and pragmatics
description: In Belfast, Megan loses her bus pass and Mum shouts, then cries in the kitchen. Who acts: Megan, Mum. A sentence of the lesson «Shouty parents and bad days» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Shouty parents and bad days, sentence 16

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In Belfast, Megan loses her bus pass and Mum shouts, then cries in the kitchen.

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**Who acts:** Megan, Mum · **What happens:** lose, shout, cry, pass · **To what, where:** bus pass, Belfast, kitchen

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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 (Megan, Mum), 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:16
# text = In Belfast, Megan loses her bus pass and Mum shouts, then cries in the kitchen.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Belfast	Belfast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Megan	Megan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	loses	lose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	pass	pass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	cries	cry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **lose** | present | Megan | Megan's bus pass |  | Belfast |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pass=Eventuality |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | Megan *not said here* |  |  | the kitchen | then |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kitchen=Location |
| 4 | **pass** |  | Megan |  |  |  |  |  | nom pass «act transitive»: poss=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:494-shouty-parents-and-bad-days.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): R8-pos-agree ×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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