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title: What helped was Mum and his coach cheering loud, his nan writing eve… — Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, m… · tree and pragmatics
description: What helped was Mum and his coach cheering loud, his nan writing every goal in a notebook "for when Dad's ready to read it", and finally telling Dad calmly on the phone, "It hurts when you don't come"; pretending not to care only kept the hurt hidden. Who acts: Mum, nan, Dad, pretending. A sentence 
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# Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness, sentence 4

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What helped was Mum and his coach cheering loud, his nan writing every goal in a notebook "for when Dad's ready to read it", and finally telling Dad calmly on the phone, "It hurts when you don't come"; pretending not to care only kept the hurt hidden.

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**Who acts:** Mum, nan, Dad, pretending · **What happens:** help, be, cheer, write, read, tell · **To what, where:** Mum, goal, notebook, Dad, phone, hurt · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness» 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 (Mum, nan, Dad, pretending), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:013-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness.lesson:4
# text = What helped was Mum and his coach cheering loud, his nan writing every goal in a notebook "for when Dad's ready to read it", and finally telling Dad calmly on the phone, "It hurts when you don't come"; pretending not to care only kept the hurt hidden.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 013-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness.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, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	csubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nsubj
8	cheering	cheer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
9	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	nan	nan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	writing	write	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	goal	goal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	notebook	notebook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
22	Dad	Dad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
24	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:ccomp
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
33	Dad	Dad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	iobj	_	_
34	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
39	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
40	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:parataxis
42	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	46	advmod	_	_
43	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
44	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
45	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	46	advmod	_	_
46	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:ccomp
47	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=46:punct
48	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	49	punct	_	_
49	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	54	csubj	_	_
50	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	52	advmod	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	xcomp	_	_
53	only	only	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	hurt	hurt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
57	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	xcomp	_	_
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | past | Mum and Jayden's coach |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | Mum and Jayden's coach |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cheer** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **write** | gerund | Jayden's nan | every goal |  | a notebook |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent goal=Theme in notebook=Destination |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | Dad |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **read** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Jayden's nan *not said here* | goal |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | Jayden's nan *not said here* |  | Dad | the phone |  | calmly, finally *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 8 | **hurt** *in a quote* | present | nan |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
| 9 | **not** **come** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Dad |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **pretend** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 11 | **not** **care** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 12 | **keep** | past | pretending | the hurt |  |  |  | hidden *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurt=Theme |

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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:013-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness.lesson:4`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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