--- title: Knowing the difference matters: shouting at a match or about a messy… — Shouty parents and bad days · tree and pragmatics description: Knowing the difference matters: shouting at a match or about a messy room is one thing; anger that turns on people, or feeling scared to go home, is another. Who acts: Knowing, messy room, anger. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Knowing, messy room, anger), 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:25 # text = Knowing the difference matters: shouting at a match or about a messy room is one thing; anger that turns on people, or feeling scared to go home, is another. # 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 Knowing know VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 csubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 difference difference NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 6 shouting shout VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 parataxis _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 match match NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 11 about about ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 messy messy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 19 anger anger NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 feeling feel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 conj _ _ 27 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ _ 30 home home ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 17 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **know** | gerund | | the difference | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer difference=Stimulus | | 2 | **matter** | present | Knowing | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | | | | a match | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | a messy room | | | | | about one thing and anger | tree rules | | 5 | **turn** | present | anger | | | | | on people | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on people=Trajectory | | 6 | **feel** | gerund | anger *not said here* | | | | | scared *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **go** | to-infinitive | anger *not said here* | | | | | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:25`. **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/). - ← previous: [Shouty parents and bad days, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/494-shouty-parents-and-bad-days/24/) - next →: [Shouty parents and bad days, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/494-shouty-parents-and-bad-days/26/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/494-shouty-parents-and-bad-days/)