--- title: In Toronto, Zelda tiptoes when Dad gets home from work and checks hi… — Shouty parents and bad days · tree and pragmatics description: In Toronto, Zelda tiptoes when Dad gets home from work and checks his face first, to see what mood he's in. Who acts: Zelda, Dad. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/494-shouty-parents-and-bad-days/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Shouty parents and bad days](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/494-shouty-parents-and-bad-days/) / 19 # Shouty parents and bad days, sentence 19 In Toronto, Zelda tiptoes when Dad gets home from work and checks his face first, to see what mood he's in. **Who acts:** Zelda, Dad · **What happens:** tiptoe, get, check, see · **To what, where:** Toronto, work, face, mood 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 (Zelda, Dad), 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:19 # text = In Toronto, Zelda tiptoes when Dad gets home from work and checks his face first, to see what mood he's in. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Toronto Toronto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 Zelda Zelda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 tiptoes tiptoe VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 when when SCONJ WRB _ 8 mark _ _ 7 Dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 8 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 9 home home ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc 13 checks check VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 13 advmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advcl 20 what what DET WDT PronType=Int 21 det _ _ 21 mood mood NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 21 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tiptoe** | present | Zelda | | | Toronto | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in toronto=Trajectory | | 2 | **get** | present | Dad | | | work | | home *property* | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from work=Destination | | 3 | **check** | present | Dad *not said here* | dad's face | | | | first *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme | | 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | Dad *not said here* | what mood | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mood=Stimulus | 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. **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:19`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Shouty parents and bad days, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/494-shouty-parents-and-bad-days/17/) - next →: [Shouty parents and bad days, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/494-shouty-parents-and-bad-days/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/494-shouty-parents-and-bad-days/)