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title: Tired adults often push on all day and only stop when they sit down,… — When grown-ups are tired or worried · tree and pragmatics
description: Tired adults often push on all day and only stop when they sit down, and a good night's sleep usually fixes it. Who acts: Tired adults, adults, sleep, good night. 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
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# When grown-ups are tired or worried, sentence 12

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Tired adults often push on all day and only stop when they sit down, and a good night's sleep usually fixes it.

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**Who acts:** Tired adults, adults, sleep, good night · **What happens:** push, stop, sit down, fix, sleep · **To what, where:** body

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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 (Tired adults, adults, sleep, good night), 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:12
# text = Tired adults often push on all day and only stop when they sit down, and a good night's sleep usually fixes it.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	push	push	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:amod
19	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	fixes	fix	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	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 | **push** | present | Tired adults |  |  |  | day | often *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stop** | present | Tired adults *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **sit down** | present | adults *= adult* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fix** | present | a good night's sleep | body |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **sleep** |  | a good night |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state 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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**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, 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.

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