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title: «I've had a long day» means a grown-up's energy and patience are use… — When grown-ups are tired or worried · tree and pragmatics
description: «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. Who acts: rest. 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 pragmatics of every
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# When grown-ups are tired or worried, sentence 10

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«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.

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**Who acts:** rest · **What happens:** have, mean, grow, use up, bring back · **To what, where:** energy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (rest), 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:10
# text = «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.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	nsubj	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
9	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
13	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	ccomp	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	bring	bring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	back	back	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4: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 | **have** *in a quote* | present · perfect |  |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **use up** | present · passive |  | a grown up's energy and patience |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **bring back** | present | a rest and food | energy |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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): R6-punct-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/).

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