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title: Money worries often show in the voice; most families have tight mont… — When grown-ups are tired or worried · tree and pragmatics
description: Money worries often show in the voice; most families have tight months, and fixing them is not a child's job. Who acts: Money worries, most families. 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 prag
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# When grown-ups are tired or worried, sentence 16

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Money worries often show in the voice; most families have tight months, and fixing them is not a child's job.

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**Who acts:** Money worries, most families · **What happens:** show, have, fix, not be · **To what, where:** voice, families, job

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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 (Money worries, most families), 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:16
# text = Money worries often show in the voice; most families have tight months, and fixing them is not a child's job.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	worries	worry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
12	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	fixing	fix	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:det
21	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	advcl	_	_
24	.	.	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 | **show** | present | Money worries |  |  | the voice |  | often *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | present | most families |  |  |  | month |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fix** | gerund | Money worries *not said here* | families *= family* |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | present | Money worries *not said here* | a child's job |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 ×1, 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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