--- title: A worried mind keeps going back to the same thing, so worried adults… — When grown-ups are tired or worried · tree and pragmatics description: A worried mind keeps going back to the same thing, so worried adults can be distracted until the news comes. Who acts: worried mind, news. 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 e --- [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/17/) [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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/) / 17 # When grown-ups are tired or worried, sentence 17 A worried mind keeps going back to the same thing, so worried adults can be distracted until the news comes. **Who acts:** worried mind, news · **What happens:** keep, go back, distract, come · **To what, where:** worried adults 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 (worried mind, news), 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:17 # text = A worried mind keeps going back to the same thing, so worried adults can be distracted until the news comes. # 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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 worried worried ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ _ 6 back back ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 13 worried worried ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 distracted distract VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:xcomp 18 until until SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | present | a worried mind | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go back** | gerund | a worried mind *not said here* | | | | | | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **distract** | can · passive | | worried adults | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 4 | **come** | present | the news | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:adult-life:034-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried.lesson:17`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [When grown-ups are tired or worried, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/16/) - next →: [When grown-ups are tired or worried, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/)