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title: Now they're both in trouble, and Dad can't work out what really happ… — Siblings as best mates and as rivals · tree and pragmatics
description: Now they're both in trouble, and Dad can't work out what really happened. Who acts: Jago, Dad. A sentence of the lesson «Siblings as best mates and as rivals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Siblings as best mates and as rivals, sentence 21

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Now they're both in trouble, and Dad can't work out what really happened.

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**Who acts:** Jago, Dad · **What happens:** be, not work out, happen · **To what, where:** trouble

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Siblings as best mates and as rivals» 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 (Jago, Dad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals.lesson:21
# text = Now they're both in trouble, and Dad can't work out what really happened.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	both	both	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
10	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	nsubj	_	_
15	really	really	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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** | present | Jago |  |  | trouble | now | both *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **work out** | can | Dad |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **happen** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals.lesson:21`.

**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 ×1, 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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