--- title: "Not in front of the children" means the grown-ups need to talk abou… — Grown-ups who argue and make up · tree and pragmatics description: "Not in front of the children" means the grown-ups need to talk about something serious and want to protect you from worry, not that you did something wrong. Who acts: grown ups, you. 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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 (grown ups, you), 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:6 # text = "Not in front of the children" means the grown-ups need to talk about something serious and want to protect you from worry, not that you did something wrong. # 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 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 amod _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 about about ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 16 obl _ _ 19 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 worry worry NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 32 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 31 obj _ _ 33 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | | | | front of the children | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **need** | present | the grown ups | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **talk** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the grown ups *not said here* | | | | | about something | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about something=Topic | | 5 | **want** | present | the grown ups *not said here* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **protect** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the grown ups *not said here* | | you | | | from worry | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary from worry=Theme | | 7 | **not** **do** | past | you | something | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | 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:6`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Grown-ups who argue and make up, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up/5/) - next →: [Grown-ups who argue and make up, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up/)