--- title: Some worry is quieter: a tight, careful voice on the phone to the ba… — When grown-ups are tired or worried · tree and pragmatics description: Some worry is quieter: a tight, careful voice on the phone to the bank, a phone checked again and again, red eyes and «I'm fine, honestly». Who acts: worry, Dad. 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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 (worry, Dad), 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:7 # text = Some worry is quieter: a tight, careful voice on the phone to the bank, a phone checked again and again, red eyes and «I'm fine, honestly». # 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 ×3 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 worry worry NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 quieter quiet ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 7 tight tight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 20 checked check VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:acl 21 again again ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 again again ADV RB _ 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:conj 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 parataxis _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 « « PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 33 honestly honestly ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 34 » » PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 35 . . 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 | **is** | present | some worry and a phone | | | | | quiet *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **check** | participle | | a phone *not said here* | | | again | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Dad | | | | | fine, honestly *property* | tree rules | 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:7`. **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 ×3. **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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/6/) - next →: [When grown-ups are tired or worried, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/)