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title: «Relax, he's at the ref, not us.» In Liverpool, Mum yells, «Clean yo… — Shouty parents and bad days · tree and pragmatics
description: «Relax, he's at the ref, not us.» In Liverpool, Mum yells, «Clean your room, it's a tip!», then later, «C'mere, ye little muppet» («muppet» here means a silly one, said with love) and squeezes Molly-Rae tight. Who acts: you, he, Mum, room. A sentence of the lesson «Shouty parents and bad days» of th
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# Shouty parents and bad days, sentence 8

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«Relax, he's at the ref, not us.» In Liverpool, Mum yells, «Clean your room, it's a tip!», then later, «C'mere, ye little muppet» («muppet» here means a silly one, said with love) and squeezes Molly-Rae tight.

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**Who acts:** you, he, Mum, room, muppet · **What happens:** relax, be, yell, clean, mean, say · **To what, where:** ref, Liverpool, room, tip, silly one, Molly Rae · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, he, Mum, room), 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:8
# text = «Relax, he's at the ref, not us.» In Liverpool, Mum yells, «Clean your room, it's a tip!», then later, «C'mere, ye little muppet» («muppet» here means a silly one, said with love) and squeezes Molly-Rae tight.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Relax	relax	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ref	ref	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
14	In	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Liverpool	Liverpool	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	Mum	Mum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	yells	yell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
21	Clean	clean	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:parataxis
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	tip	tip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	parataxis	_	_
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
30	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
33	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	_
36	C'mere	C'mere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	parataxis	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=41:punct
38	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	40	dep	_	_
39	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:amod
40	muppet	muppet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:vocative
41	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
42	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	44	punct	_	_
43	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	44	punct	_	_
44	muppet	muppet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
45	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	44	punct	_	_
46	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	44	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=47:advmod
47	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
53	with	with	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
55	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	54	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	squeezes	squeeze	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
58	Molly	Molly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	60	compound	_	_
59	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	58	punct	_	_
60	Rae	Rae	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	_
61	tight	tight	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **relax** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | he |  |  | the ref |  | us *nmod* | tree rules |
| 3 | **yell** *speech: express* | present | Mum |  |  | Liverpool |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **clean** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | your room |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent room=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | room | a tip |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **mean** | present | muppet | a silly one |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with love | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with love=Manner |
| 8 | **squeeze** | present | you *not said here* | Molly Rae |  |  |  | tight *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent rae=Result |

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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:8`.

**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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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