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title: In Glasgow, the car breaks down and Aimee's dad loses it and kicks t… — Shouty parents and bad days · tree and pragmatics
description: In Glasgow, the car breaks down and Aimee's dad loses it and kicks the tyre, and Aimee goes very still in the back seat. Who acts: car, dad, Aimee. 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 ev
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# Shouty parents and bad days, sentence 23

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In Glasgow, the car breaks down and Aimee's dad loses it and kicks the tyre, and Aimee goes very still in the back seat.

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**Who acts:** car, dad, Aimee · **What happens:** break down, lose, kick, go · **To what, where:** Glasgow, car, tyre, back seat

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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 (car, dad, Aimee), 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:23
# text = In Glasgow, the car breaks down and Aimee's dad loses it and kicks the tyre, and Aimee goes very still in the back seat.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	breaks	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	Aimee	Aimee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	loses	lose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	kicks	kick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	tyre	tyre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	Aimee	Aimee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	still	still	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **break down** | present | the car |  |  | Glasgow |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **lose** | present | Aimee's dad | car |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 3 | **kick** | present | Aimee's dad *not said here* | the tyre |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent tyre=Patient |
| 4 | **go** | present | Aimee |  |  | the back seat | still |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in seat=Location |

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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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