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title: None of that grumbling means your parents hate their jobs or are cro… — A day at a grown-up's job · tree and pragmatics
description: None of that grumbling means your parents hate their jobs or are cross with you; it is how grown-ups let off steam after a long day. Who acts: None, parents, it, ups. A sentence of the lesson «A day at a grown-up's job» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t
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# A day at a grown-up's job, sentence 3

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None of that grumbling means your parents hate their jobs or are cross with you; it is how grown-ups let off steam after a long day.

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**Who acts:** None, parents, it, ups · **What happens:** mean, hate, be, let off, job · **To what, where:** jobs, steam · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A day at a grown-up's job» of the adult life 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 (None, parents, it, ups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:001-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job.lesson:3
# text = None of that grumbling means your parents hate their jobs or are cross with you; it is how grown-ups let off steam after a long day.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 001-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job.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): no change
1	None	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	grumbling	grumble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hate	hate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	cross	cross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
20	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
22	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	let	let	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
24	off	off	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	after	after	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | None |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **hate** | present | your parents | parents's jobs |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer job=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present | your parents *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with you; cross *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | grow *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **let off** | present | ups | steam |  |  | day |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steam=Theme |
| 6 | **job** |  | parents *= parent* |  |  |  |  |  | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=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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**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): no change. **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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