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title: Being screamed at usually makes children's skills and decisions wors… — The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline · tree and pragmatics
description: Being screamed at usually makes children's skills and decisions worse, not better. 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 of every clause.
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# The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline, sentence 8

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Being screamed at usually makes children's skills and decisions worse, not better.

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**What happens:** scream at, make · **To what, where:** skills

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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: 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:8
# text = Being screamed at usually makes children's skills and decisions worse, not better.
# 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	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	screamed	scream	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	csubj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	skills	skill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	decisions	decision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	conj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scream at** *speech: express* | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V» |
| 2 | **make** | present |  | children's skills and decisions |  |  |  | bad, usually *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset skill=Product |

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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:8`.

**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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