Fighting, ignoring each other and sharing a room, sentence 12

In Ohio, Cooper and Hayes fight over the bathroom every morning, so Mom buys a kitchen timer: «Four minutes each, then you're out, no cap.» They grumble, but the fights stop.

Who acts: Cooper, Mom, you, fights · What happens: fight, buy, be, grumble, stop · To what, where: Ohio, kitchen timer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Fighting, ignoring each other and sharing a room» of the everyday 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 (Cooper, Mom, you, fights), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

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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