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title: In Ohio, Dad is a «my way or the highway» guy (it means «do it my wa… — Parents who row, and one kind and one not · tree and pragmatics
description: In Ohio, Dad is a «my way or the highway» guy (it means «do it my way or leave») and says no to Nate's soccer team, so Mom sneaks him to practice. Who acts: Dad, row, Mom. A sentence of the lesson «Parents who row, and one kind and one not» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Parents who row, and one kind and one not, sentence 20

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In Ohio, Dad is a «my way or the highway» guy (it means «do it my way or leave») and says no to Nate's soccer team, so Mom sneaks him to practice.

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**Who acts:** Dad, row, Mom · **What happens:** be, mean, do, leave, say, sneak · **To what, where:** way guy, row, soccer team, Dad · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Parents who row, and one kind and one not» 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 (Dad, row, Mom), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:496-parents-who-row-and-one-kind-and-one-not.lesson:20
# text = In Ohio, Dad is a «my way or the highway» guy (it means «do it my way or leave») and says no to Nate's soccer team, so Mom sneaks him to practice.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 496-parents-who-row-and-one-kind-and-one-not.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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Dad	Dad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	highway	highway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
14	guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
18	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
19	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:xcomp
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
25	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
29	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	Nate	Nate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	_
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	soccer	soccer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
37	Mom	Mom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	sneaks	sneak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	practice	practice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	advcl	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **is a** | present | Dad | a way guy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | row |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | row |  |  |  | my way *obl:unmarked* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 4 | **leave** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Dad *not said here* |  | no Nate's soccer team |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to team=Recipient |
| 6 | **sneak** | present | Mom | Dad |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Agent |
| 7 | **practice** | to-infinitive | Mom *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn rehearse-26.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:496-parents-who-row-and-one-kind-and-one-not.lesson:20`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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