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title: The silent treatment usually makes things worse, and children should… — Grown-ups who argue and make up · tree and pragmatics
description: The silent treatment usually makes things worse, and children should not have to carry messages between upset grown-ups. Who acts: silent treatment, 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
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# Grown-ups who argue and make up, sentence 8

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The silent treatment usually makes things worse, and children should not have to carry messages between upset grown-ups.

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**Who acts:** silent treatment, children · **What happens:** make, not have, carry, grow · **To what, where:** things, messages

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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 (silent treatment, 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:8
# text = The silent treatment usually makes things worse, and children should not have to carry messages between upset grown-ups.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	messages	message	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	between	between	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	upset	upset	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
21	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **make** | present | the silent treatment | things |  |  |  | bad, usually *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product |
| 2 | **not** **have** | should | children |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **carry** | to-infinitive | children *not said here* | messages |  |  |  | between upset grown ups | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme |
| 4 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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): no change. **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/).

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