--- title: A grumpy hello at the door means the work day is still hanging on, a… — When grown-ups are tired or worried · tree and pragmatics description: A grumpy hello at the door means the work day is still hanging on, and «I need five minutes» means a grown-up is calming down instead of snapping. Who acts: grumpy hello, work day, Dad, grown up. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grumpy hello, work day, Dad, grown up), 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:6 # text = A grumpy hello at the door means the work day is still hanging on, and «I need five minutes» means a grown-up is calming down instead of snapping. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 grumpy grumpy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 hello hello NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 still still ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 hanging hang VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 ccomp _ _ 14 on on ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 20 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 » » PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 23 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 grown grow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ _ 27 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 calming calm VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 ccomp _ _ 30 down down ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 31 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 33 mark _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 31 fixed _ _ 33 snapping snap VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | a grumpy hello at the door | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **hang on** | present · progressive | the work day | | | | still | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **need** *in a quote* | present | Dad | | | | minute | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **mean** | present | a grumpy hello at the door *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **calm down** | present · progressive | a grown up | | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **snap** | gerund | a grown up *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «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:6`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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