--- title: Raised voices downstairs after bedtime usually mean parents are argu… — Grown-ups who argue and make up · tree and pragmatics description: Raised voices downstairs after bedtime usually mean parents are arguing, and they often wait until children are in bed so they will not get upset. Who acts: Raised voices, parents, voices, children. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Raised voices, parents, voices, 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:5 # text = Raised voices downstairs after bedtime usually mean parents are arguing, and they often wait until children are in bed so they will not get upset. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Raised raise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 amod _ _ 2 voices voice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 3 downstairs downstairs ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod 4 after after ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 bedtime bedtime NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 usually usually ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 arguing argue VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 ccomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 often often ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 wait wait VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 16 until until SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 17 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obl 21 so so SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 26 upset upset ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **raise** | participle | | | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | present | Raised voices after bedtime | | | | | usually *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present · progressive | parents | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **wait** | present | voices *= voice* | | | | | often *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | children | | | bed | | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **get** | future | children *= child* | | | | | upset *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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. **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:adult-life:014-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up.lesson:5`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Grown-ups who argue and make up, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up/4/) - next →: [Grown-ups who argue and make up, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up/)