--- title: Grown-ups also tease children about girlfriends and crushes, and old… — Gran, cousins and the whole wide family · tree and pragmatics description: Grown-ups also tease children about girlfriends and crushes, and older people sometimes find new partners late in life. Who acts: Grown ups, older people. A sentence of the lesson «Gran, cousins and the whole wide family» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/5/) [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/) / [Gran, cousins and the whole wide family](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/) / 5 # Gran, cousins and the whole wide family, sentence 5 Grown-ups also tease children about girlfriends and crushes, and older people sometimes find new partners late in life. **Who acts:** Grown ups, older people · **What happens:** grow, tease, find · **To what, where:** children, new partners This is a sentence of the lesson «Gran, cousins and the whole wide family» 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 (Grown ups, older people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:017-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family.lesson:5 # text = Grown-ups also tease children about girlfriends and crushes, and older people sometimes find new partners late in life. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 017-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family.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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 compound _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 3 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 also also ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 tease tease VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 about about ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 girlfriends girlfriend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 crushes crush NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 amod _ _ 14 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 15 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 16 advmod _ _ 16 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 17 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 partners partner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 late late ADV RB Degree=Pos 16 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advmod 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl 22 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | 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 | **tease** | present | Grown ups | children | | | | about girlfriends and crushes | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | | 3 | **find** | present | older people | new partners | | | | late, sometimes *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partner=Topic | 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:017-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family.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 ×3, R8-pos-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: [Gran, cousins and the whole wide family, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/4/) - next →: [Gran, cousins and the whole wide family, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/)