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title: Their dad drives a lorry and is often away, and one night Mum puts h… — Fighting, ignoring each other and sharing a room · tree and pragmatics
description: Their dad drives a lorry and is often away, and one night Mum puts her head in her hands: «I'm done, I'm proper done with you two.» Brothers and sisters close in age often fight a lot, and it usually gets better. Who acts: dad, Mum, I, Brothers. A sentence of the lesson «Fighting, ignoring each othe
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# Fighting, ignoring each other and sharing a room, sentence 1

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Their dad drives a lorry and is often away, and one night Mum puts her head in her hands: «I'm done, I'm proper done with you two.» Brothers and sisters close in age often fight a lot, and it usually gets better.

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**Who acts:** dad, Mum, I, Brothers, head · **What happens:** drive, be, put, do, close, fight · **To what, where:** lorry, head, hands, two, lot

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fighting, ignoring each other and sharing a room» 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, Mum, I, Brothers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:508-fighting-ignoring-each-other-and-sharing-a-room.lesson:1
# text = Their dad drives a lorry and is often away, and one night Mum puts her head in her hands: «I'm done, I'm proper done with you two.» Brothers and sisters close in age often fight a lot, and it usually gets better.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 508-fighting-ignoring-each-other-and-sharing-a-room.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drives	drive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lorry	lorry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	often	often	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:compound
14	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	done	done	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:conj
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
33	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	obj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
35	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
36	Brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	_
39	close	close	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
42	often	often	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	fight	fight	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl:unmarked	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
49	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
51	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	50	xcomp	_	_
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **drive** | present | Wakefield's dad | a lorry |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lorry=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Wakefield's dad *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away, often *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **put** | present | Mum | Mum's head |  | Mum's hands | night |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in hand=Destination |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  | done *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* | present · passive | I | two |  |  |  | with you; properly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Eventuality |
| 6 | **close** | present | Brothers and sisters |  |  |  | in age |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent in age=Topic |
| 7 | **fight** | present | Brothers and sisters *not said here* | a lot |  |  |  | often *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **get** | present | head |  |  |  |  | good, usually *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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**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 ×1, R7-rel-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.

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