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title: Some leagues try «silent touchline» weekends where adults may only c… — The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline · tree and pragmatics
description: Some leagues try «silent touchline» weekends where adults may only clap, and many kids say they play more freely; parents cheer, the coach coaches, and the best words after a game are «I love watching you play». Who acts: leagues, adults, many kids, kids. A sentence of the lesson «The coach who shou
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# The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline, sentence 5

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Some leagues try «silent touchline» weekends where adults may only clap, and many kids say they play more freely; parents cheer, the coach coaches, and the best words after a game are «I love watching you play».

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**Who acts:** leagues, adults, many kids, kids, parents, coach · **What happens:** try, clap, say, play, cheer, coach · **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 (leagues, adults, many kids, kids), 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:5
# text = Some leagues try «silent touchline» weekends where adults may only clap, and many kids say they play more freely; parents cheer, the coach coaches, and the best words after a game are «I love watching you play».
# 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	leagues	league	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	try	try	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
5	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:amod
6	touchline	touchline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
8	weekends	weekend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
10	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nsubj
11	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	clap	clap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
21	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
22	freely	freely	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	cheer	cheer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	coaches	coach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	34	amod	_	_
34	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
35	after	after	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
39	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	_
40	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
42	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	41	xcomp	_	_
43	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=42:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
45	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | present | some leagues |  |  |  | weekend |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **clap** | may | adults |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | many kids |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **play** | present | kids *= kid* |  |  |  |  | freely *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **cheer** | present | parents |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **coach** | present | coach |  |  |  |  |  | vn vehicle-51.4.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the best words after a game |  |  |  |  | love *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **watch** *not said to happen, in a quote* | gerund | the best words after a game *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **play** *in a quote* | infinitive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×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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