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title: The brain struggles to follow several shouted instructions at once i… — The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline · tree and pragmatics
description: The brain struggles to follow several shouted instructions at once in the middle of a move. Who acts: brain. 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 9

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The brain struggles to follow several shouted instructions at once in the middle of a move.

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**Who acts:** brain · **What happens:** struggle, follow, shout · **To what, where:** several shouted instructions, middle

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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 (brain), 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:9
# text = The brain struggles to follow several shouted instructions at once in the middle of a move.
# 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 ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	struggles	struggle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	shouted	shout	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	instructions	instruction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	move	move	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **struggle** | present | the brain |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | to-infinitive | the brain *not said here* | several shouted instructions |  | the middle of a move |  | once *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme in middle=Trajectory |
| 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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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**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:9`.

**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 ×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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