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title: None of this is a child's job to fix, and none of it is a child's fa… — Grown-ups who argue and make up · tree and pragmatics
description: None of this is a child's job to fix, and none of it is a child's fault; you are allowed to say you felt worried, and to ask "Is everything okay?" Who acts: None, you, everything. A sentence of the lesson «Grown-ups who argue and make up» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Grown-ups who argue and make up, sentence 3

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None of this is a child's job to fix, and none of it is a child's fault; you are allowed to say you felt worried, and to ask "Is everything okay?"

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**Who acts:** None, you, everything · **What happens:** be, fix, allow, say, feel, ask · **To what, where:** job, fault, you · **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 (None, you, everything), 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:3
# text = None of this is a child's job to fix, and none of it is a child's fault; you are allowed to say you felt worried, and to ask "Is everything okay?"
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	None	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	8	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	nmod	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
13	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	20	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	_
29	worried	worried	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:parataxis
34	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	_
35	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	37	nsubj	_	_
37	okay	okay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	ccomp	_	_
38	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	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 | **is a** | present | None | a child's job and a child's fault |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fix** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | none | a child's fault |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **allow** | present · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **feel** | past | you |  |  |  |  | worried *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is** *in a quote* | present | everything |  |  |  |  | okay *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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**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. **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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