--- title: One day he says, «Can yous not do that in front of me?» («yous» = yo… — Divorce and two homes · tree and pragmatics description: One day he says, «Can yous not do that in front of me?» («yous» = you lot). Who acts: Tanner, yous. A sentence of the lesson «Divorce and two homes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/516-divorce-and-two-homes/27/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Divorce and two homes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/516-divorce-and-two-homes/) / 27 # Divorce and two homes, sentence 27 One day he says, «Can yous not do that in front of me?» («yous» = you lot). **Who acts:** Tanner, yous · **What happens:** say, not do · **To what, where:** that, front · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Divorce and two homes» 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 (Tanner, yous), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:516-divorce-and-two-homes.lesson:27 # text = One day he says, «Can yous not do that in front of me?» («yous» = you lot). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 516-divorce-and-two-homes.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 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 7 Can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 8 yous you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 11 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 10 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nmod _ _ 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 18 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 yous you NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 = = SYM SYM _ 24 punct _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP:Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 parataxis _ _ 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | present | Tanner | | | | day | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | can | yous | that | | front of me | | yous *obl* | tree rules | 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. **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:516-divorce-and-two-homes.lesson:27`. **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/). - ← previous: [Divorce and two homes, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/516-divorce-and-two-homes/26/) - next →: [Divorce and two homes, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/516-divorce-and-two-homes/28/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/516-divorce-and-two-homes/)