--- title: Scene: in Melbourne, Dad drops his bag by the door: «I've had a long… — When grown-ups are tired or worried · tree and pragmatics description: Scene: in Melbourne, Dad drops his bag by the door: «I've had a long day.» He is quiet and grumpy until tea, then he tells jokes. Who acts: Dad, I. 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 pragma --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # When grown-ups are tired or worried, sentence 2 Scene: in Melbourne, Dad drops his bag by the door: «I've had a long day.» He is quiet and grumpy until tea, then he tells jokes. **Who acts:** Dad, I · **What happens:** drop, have, be, tell · **To what, where:** bag, Melbourne, jokes · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Dad, I), 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:2 # text = Scene: in Melbourne, Dad drops his bag by the door: «I've had a long day.» He is quiet and grumpy until tea, then he tells jokes. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Scene scene NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Melbourne Melbourne PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:appos 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 Dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 7 drops drop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 14 « « PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 parataxis _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ 22 » » PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 23 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 grumpy grumpy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ _ 28 until until ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 33 advmod _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 34 jokes joke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drop** | present | Dad | Dad's bag | | Melbourne | | by the door | tree rules | | 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present · perfect | I | | | | day | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | Dad | | | | until tea | quiet *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | Dad *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Dad | jokes | | | then | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent joke=Recipient | 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:2`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [When grown-ups are tired or worried, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/1/) - next →: [When grown-ups are tired or worried, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/)