--- title: "Tell your father his dinner's ready" is the silent treatment: someo… — Grown-ups who argue and make up · tree and pragmatics description: "Tell your father his dinner's ready" is the silent treatment: someone so cross they will not speak to the other person directly. Who acts: father, dinner, ups. 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 t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Grown-ups who argue and make up](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up/) / 7 # Grown-ups who argue and make up, sentence 7 "Tell your father his dinner's ready" is the silent treatment: someone so cross they will not speak to the other person directly. **Who acts:** father, dinner, ups · **What happens:** tell, be, not speak · **To what, where:** father, silent treatment · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (father, dinner, ups), 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:7 # text = "Tell your father his dinner's ready" is the silent treatment: someone so cross they will not speak to the other person directly. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 ccomp _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 treatment treatment NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 15 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 13 appos _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 cross cross ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl:relcl _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 directly directly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | imperative | your father *= father* *not said here* | | your father | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Melbourne's dinner | | | | | ready *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | | the silent treatment | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | future | ups *= up* | | | | | to the other person; directly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to person=Co-Agent | 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:7`. **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): R6-punct-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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up/6/) - next →: [Grown-ups who argue and make up, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up/)