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title: Work, housework, money, sick relatives and bad news all use up energ… — When grown-ups are tired or worried · tree and pragmatics
description: Work, housework, money, sick relatives and bad news all use up energy and patience, and it shows in their voice and their face. Who acts: Work, patience. A sentence of the lesson «When grown-ups are tired or worried» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
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# When grown-ups are tired or worried, sentence 1

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Work, housework, money, sick relatives and bad news all use up energy and patience, and it shows in their voice and their face.

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**Who acts:** Work, patience · **What happens:** use up, show · **To what, where:** energy, voice

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When grown-ups are tired or worried» 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 (Work, patience), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:034-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried.lesson:1
# text = Work, housework, money, sick relatives and bad news all use up energy and patience, and it shows in their voice and their face.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 034-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	housework	housework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	relatives	relative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	all	all	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:parataxis
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **use up** | present | Work and housework and money | energy and patience |  |  |  | all *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient |
| 2 | **show** | present | patience |  |  | relatives's voice and relatives's face |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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 ×2, R7-rel-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.

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