--- title: Adults sometimes switch off heavy news to take a break from it, beca… — When grown-ups are tired or worried · tree and pragmatics description: Adults sometimes switch off heavy news to take a break from it, because too much bad news makes anyone gloomy. Who acts: Adults, much bad 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 --- [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/19/) [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/) / 19 # When grown-ups are tired or worried, sentence 19 Adults sometimes switch off heavy news to take a break from it, because too much bad news makes anyone gloomy. **Who acts:** Adults, much bad news · **What happens:** switch off, take, make · **To what, where:** heavy news, break, news, anyone 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 (Adults, much bad 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:19 # text = Adults sometimes switch off heavy news to take a break from it, because too much bad news makes anyone gloomy. # 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 Adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 sometimes sometimes ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 switch switch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 off off ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 break break NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 15 too too ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 20 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 19 obj _ _ 21 gloomy gloomy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:xcomp 22 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **switch off** | present | Adults | heavy news | | | | sometimes *property* | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Patient | | 2 | **take** | to-infinitive | Adults *not said here* | a break | | news | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent break=Theme from it=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **make** | present | much bad news | anyone | | | | gloomy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset anyone=Product | 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:19`. **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, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/18/) - next →: [When grown-ups are tired or worried, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/)