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title: Through the wall Maisie heard Mum and Dad shouting again, a door sla… — Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not yo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Through the wall Maisie heard Mum and Dad shouting again, a door slammed and Dad's car left; she lay awake thinking, "Is it 'cause I was bad at tea? Who acts: Maisie, Mum, door, car. A sentence of the lesson «Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not your fault» of the reflection course of Mova'
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# Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not your fault, sentence 1

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Through the wall Maisie heard Mum and Dad shouting again, a door slammed and Dad's car left; she lay awake thinking, "Is it 'cause I was bad at tea?

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**Who acts:** Maisie, Mum, door, car · **What happens:** hear, shout, slam, leave, lay, think · **To what, where:** Mum, wall, tea · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not your fault» of the reflection 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 (Maisie, Mum, door, car), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:012-parents-shouting-parents-splitting-it-s-not-your-fault.lesson:1
# text = Through the wall Maisie heard Mum and Dad shouting again, a door slammed and Dad's car left; she lay awake thinking, "Is it 'cause I was bad at tea?
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 012-parents-shouting-parents-splitting-it-s-not-your-fault.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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	Maisie	Maisie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
6	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Dad	Dad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	slammed	slam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	Dad	Dad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	lay	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
23	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	advcl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
27	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
29	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	_
30	cause	cause	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	ccomp	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
36	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14: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 | **hear** | past | Maisie | Mum and Dad |  | the wall |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer mum=Stimulus |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | Mum and Dad *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **slam** | participle | a door |  |  |  |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | past | Dad's car |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **lay** | past | door |  |  |  |  | awake *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | door *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | car |  |  | tea |  | bad *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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**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:reflection:012-parents-shouting-parents-splitting-it-s-not-your-fault.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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×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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