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title: Ethan in Chicago hears «Shoot!» from his mom, «Pass!» from his coach… — The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline · tree and pragmatics
description: Ethan in Chicago hears «Shoot!» from his mom, «Pass!» from his coach and «Here!» from three teammates all at once; the brain can only follow one instruction at a time, it hesitates for a split second, and the chance is gone. Who acts: Ethan, brain, chance. A sentence of the lesson «The coach who sho
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# The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline, sentence 2

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Ethan in Chicago hears «Shoot!» from his mom, «Pass!» from his coach and «Here!» from three teammates all at once; the brain can only follow one instruction at a time, it hesitates for a split second, and the chance is gone.

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**Who acts:** Ethan, brain, chance · **What happens:** hear, pass, follow, hesitate, be · **To what, where:** Shoot, coach, one instruction · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Ethan, brain, chance), 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:2
# text = Ethan in Chicago hears «Shoot!» from his mom, «Pass!» from his coach and «Here!» from three teammates all at once; the brain can only follow one instruction at a time, it hesitates for a split second, and the chance is gone.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Ethan	Ethan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Chicago	Chicago	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Shoot	shoot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	mom	mom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Pass	pass	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
21	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	conj	_	_
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
24	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	teammates	teammate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
28	all	all	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	28	obl	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
34	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	only	only	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
37	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	instruction	instruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	at	at	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	hesitates	hesitate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	_
45	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=47:det
47	split	split	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
48	second	second	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	44	advmod	_	_
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
53	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	54	cop	_	_
54	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	conj	_	_
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | Ethan in Chicago | Shoot |  |  |  | from Ethan's mom | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent shoot=Topic from mom=Source |
| 2 | **pass** *in a quote* | infinitive | Ethan in Chicago *not said here* |  |  | Ethan's coach |  | all *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from coach=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **follow** | can | the brain | one instruction |  |  | time |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme |
| 4 | **hesitate** | present | brain |  |  |  |  | for split; second *property* | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | the chance |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |

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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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×5, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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