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title: When a grown-up drinks too much, it is never the child's fault and n… — Coffee, tea, wine and the pub · tree and pragmatics
description: When a grown-up drinks too much, it is never the child's fault and never the child's job to fix. Who acts: law, child. A sentence of the lesson «Coffee, tea, wine and the pub» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Coffee, tea, wine and the pub, sentence 4

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When a grown-up drinks too much, it is never the child's fault and never the child's job to fix.

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**Who acts:** law, child · **What happens:** grow up, not be, fix, job · **To what, where:** fault

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Coffee, tea, wine and the pub» 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 (law, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:027-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub.lesson:4
# text = When a grown-up drinks too much, it is never the child's fault and never the child's job to fix.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 027-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub.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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×2
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det
3	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
5	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
6	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
12	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:acl
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | law | the child's fault and the child's job |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fix** | to-infinitive | law *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **job** |  | the child |  |  |  |  |  | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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:027-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub.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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×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/).

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