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title: Children copy the adults around them, so a coach who shouts insults… — The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline · tree and pragmatics
description: Children copy the adults around them, so a coach who shouts insults can turn players into shouters too. Who acts: Children, coach. A sentence of the lesson «The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline, sentence 18

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Children copy the adults around them, so a coach who shouts insults can turn players into shouters too.

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**Who acts:** Children, coach · **What happens:** copy, shout, turn · **To what, where:** adults, insults, players, shouters

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline» of the medicine 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 (Children, coach), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:068-the-coach-who-shouts-and-parents-on-the-touchline.lesson:18
# text = Children copy the adults around them, so a coach who shouts insults can turn players into shouters too.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 068-the-coach-who-shouts-and-parents-on-the-touchline.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): no change
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	copy	copy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	around	around	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	insults	insult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
16	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	shouters	shouter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	too	too	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **copy** | present | Children | the adults |  |  |  | around adults *= adult* | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent adult=Theme around they=Destination |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | a coach | insults |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insult=Topic |
| 3 | **turn** | can | a coach | players |  | shouters |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent player=Theme into shouter=Trajectory |

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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:medicine:068-the-coach-who-shouts-and-parents-on-the-touchline.lesson:18`.

**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): no change. **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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