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title: So sometimes Dad shouts at the TV the way fans shout at a referee wh… — Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about polit… · tree and pragmatics
description: So sometimes Dad shouts at the TV the way fans shout at a referee who cannot hear them. Who acts: Dad, fans, referee. A sentence of the lesson «Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics, sentence 1

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So sometimes Dad shouts at the TV the way fans shout at a referee who cannot hear them.

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**Who acts:** Dad, fans, referee · **What happens:** shout, not hear · **To what, where:** way, TV, referee, fans

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics» of the politics 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 (Dad, fans, referee), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:014-dad-shouting-at-the-tv-big-feelings-about-politics.lesson:1
# text = So sometimes Dad shouts at the TV the way fans shout at a referee who cannot hear them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 014-dad-shouting-at-the-tv-big-feelings-about-politics.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
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
3	Dad	Dad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	TV	TV	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl
10	fans	fan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	shout	shout	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advcl
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	referee	referee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | Dad | the way |  | the TV |  | sometimes *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | fans | the way *not said here* |  | a referee |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **hear** | can | a referee | fans *= fan* |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |

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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:politics:014-dad-shouting-at-the-tv-big-feelings-about-politics.lesson:1`.

**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. **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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