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title: «My way or the highway» means «do it my way or go», said by someone… — Parents who row, and one kind and one not · tree and pragmatics
description: «My way or the highway» means «do it my way or go», said by someone who won't bend. Who acts: way. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Parents who row, and one kind and one not, sentence 41

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«My way or the highway» means «do it my way or go», said by someone who won't bend.

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**Who acts:** way · **What happens:** mean, do, go, say, not bend · **To what, where:** way · **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 (way), 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:41
# text = «My way or the highway» means «do it my way or go», said by someone who won't bend.
# 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 ×2
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	highway	highway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
8	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	obl	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
22	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	bend	bend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **mean** | present | My way or the highway |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | way |  |  |  | my way *obl:unmarked* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by someone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **bend** | future |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «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:41`.

**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 ×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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