--- title: Hurt grown-ups sometimes say unkind things about each other and regr… — When parents separate · tree and pragmatics description: Hurt grown-ups sometimes say unkind things about each other and regret it; you never have to choose a side or carry their words. Who acts: Hurt grown ups, you, ups. 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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 (Hurt grown ups, you, ups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:015-when-parents-separate.lesson:4 # text = Hurt grown-ups sometimes say unkind things about each other and regret it; you never have to choose a side or carry their words. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 015-when-parents-separate.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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Hurt hurt ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 2 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 4 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 6 advmod _ _ 6 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 unkind unkind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 about about ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 8 nmod _ _ 11 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 fixed _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 regret regret VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 25 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Hurt grown ups | unkind things | | | | about each; sometimes *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | | 3 | **regret** | present | Hurt grown ups *not said here* | paperwork | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 4 | **not** **have** | present | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **choose** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a side | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Theme | | 6 | **carry** | infinitive | you *not said here* | ups's words | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | | 7 | **word** | | ups *= up* | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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:015-when-parents-separate.lesson:4`. **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, R8-pos-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: [When parents separate, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/3/) - next →: [When parents separate, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/)