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title: Kicking a tyre is anger at a thing, not at a person, but it still fe… — Shouty parents and bad days · tree and pragmatics
description: Kicking a tyre is anger at a thing, not at a person, but it still feels scary to see. Who acts: Kicking, tyre. 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 24

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Kicking a tyre is anger at a thing, not at a person, but it still feels scary to see.

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**Who acts:** Kicking, tyre · **What happens:** kick, be, feel, see · **To what, where:** tyre, anger, thing

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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 (Kicking, tyre), 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:24
# text = Kicking a tyre is anger at a thing, not at a person, but it still feels scary to see.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Kicking	kick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tyre	tyre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	still	still	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:acl
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **kick** | gerund |  | a tyre |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent tyre=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Kicking | anger |  | a thing |  | at a person | tree rules |
| 3 | **feel** | present | tyre |  |  |  | still | scary *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | tyre *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:24`.

**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): R7-rel-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/).

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