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title: Grown-ups call very sweet romantic film scenes "soppy", and children… — Grown-ups who argue and make up · tree and pragmatics
description: Grown-ups call very sweet romantic film scenes "soppy", and children are allowed to look away or roll their eyes. Who acts: Grown ups, children. A sentence of the lesson «Grown-ups who argue and make up» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Grown-ups who argue and make up, sentence 15

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Grown-ups call very sweet romantic film scenes "soppy", and children are allowed to look away or roll their eyes.

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**Who acts:** Grown ups, children · **What happens:** call, allow, look away, roll · **To what, where:** sweet romantic film scenes, children, eyes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Grown-ups who argue and make up» 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 (Grown ups, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:014-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up.lesson:15
# text = Grown-ups call very sweet romantic film scenes "soppy", and children are allowed to look away or roll their eyes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 014-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Grown	grown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	romantic	romantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	scenes	scene	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	soppy	soppy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	roll	roll	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present | Grown ups | sweet romantic film scenes |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent scene=Recipient |
| 2 | **allow** | present · passive |  | children |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **look away** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **roll** | infinitive | children *not said here* | children's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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): R7-rel-agree ×1. **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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