--- title: Sometimes grown-ups close a door, lower their voices or spell out wo… — Closed doors, whispers and secrets · tree and pragmatics description: Sometimes grown-ups close a door, lower their voices or spell out words so children won't understand. Who acts: grown ups, children. A sentence of the lesson «Closed doors, whispers and secrets» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets/0/) [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/) / [Closed doors, whispers and secrets](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets/) / 0 # Closed doors, whispers and secrets, sentence 0 Sometimes grown-ups close a door, lower their voices or spell out words so children won't understand. **Who acts:** grown ups, children · **What happens:** close, lower, spell out, not understand · **To what, where:** door, voices, words This is a sentence of the lesson «Closed doors, whispers and secrets» 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 (grown ups, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:035-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets.lesson:0 # text = Sometimes grown-ups close a door, lower their voices or spell out words so children won't understand. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 035-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 5 advmod _ _ 2 grown grow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 4 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 close close VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 lower lower VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 voices voice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 spell spell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 14 out out ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 17 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 18 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **close** | present | grown ups | a door | | | | sometimes *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | | 2 | **lower** | infinitive | grown ups *not said here* | ups's voices | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme | | 3 | **spell out** | present | grown ups *not said here* | words | | | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | | 4 | **not** **understand** | future | children | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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:035-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets.lesson:0`. **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): 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, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/20/) - next →: [Closed doors, whispers and secrets, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets/)