--- title: When grown-ups are tired or worried — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «When grown-ups are tired or worried», a lesson of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Grown-ups get tired and worried too, even when they look as if they are coping with everything. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/) [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/) / When grown-ups are tired or worried # When grown-ups are tired or worried Lesson 34 of the adult life course of Mova's primary school: 21 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/0/) — Grown-ups get tired and worried too, even when they look as if they are coping with everything. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/1/) — Work, housework, money, sick relatives and bad news all use up energy and patience, and it shows in their voice and their face. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/2/) — Scene: in Melbourne, Dad drops his bag by the door: «I've had a long day.» He is quiet and grumpy until tea, then he tells jokes. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/3/) — By eight o'clock Mum is asleep on the sofa with the telly still on. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/4/) — Nothing terrible happened; they were just worn out. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/5/) — Tiredness and worry are usually not about you. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/6/) — A grumpy hello at the door means the work day is still hanging on, and «I need five minutes» means a grown-up is calming down instead of snapping. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/7/) — Some worry is quieter: a tight, careful voice on the phone to the bank, a phone checked again and again, red eyes and «I'm fine, honestly». - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/8/) — You don't have to fix it. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/9/) — A few quiet minutes, a hug, or a simple «Are you OK?» often help most. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/10/) — «I've had a long day» means a grown-up's energy and patience are used up, and a rest and food usually bring them back. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/11/) — Work can be tiring in the head, not only in the body. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/12/) — Tired adults often push on all day and only stop when they sit down, and a good night's sleep usually fixes it. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/13/) — «I need five minutes» is a grown-up's way of calming down instead of snapping, and afterwards they are usually kinder. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/14/) — A work mood can follow a grown-up home and usually fades within an hour or so. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/15/) — A deadline is the time by which work must be finished; stress is the tight, worried feeling of too much to do in too little time. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/16/) — Money worries often show in the voice; most families have tight months, and fixing them is not a child's job. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/17/) — A worried mind keeps going back to the same thing, so worried adults can be distracted until the news comes. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/18/) — «I'm fine» often means «I'm not fine, but I don't want to talk about it now». - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/19/) — Adults sometimes switch off heavy news to take a break from it, because too much bad news makes anyone gloomy. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/20/) — A grown-up's tiredness or bad mood is usually not about the child and not a sign they are cross with them. - ← previous: [Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/) - next →: [Closed doors, whispers and secrets](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets/) - ↑ back to [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/)