--- title: Grown-ups talk privately first so they can be honest, work things ou… — Closed doors, whispers and secrets · tree and pragmatics description: Grown-ups talk privately first so they can be honest, work things out calmly, and then tell you once, clearly and gently, instead of giving you half-finished worry that might turn out to be nothing. Who acts: Grown ups, ups, finished worry. 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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 (Grown ups, ups, finished worry), 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:2 # text = Grown-ups talk privately first so they can be honest, work things out calmly, and then tell you once, clearly and gently, instead of giving you half-finished worry that might turn out to be nothing. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 privately privately ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod 6 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 advmod _ _ 7 so so SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 cop _ _ 11 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 13 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 14 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 out out ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 16 calmly calmly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ _ 20 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 iobj _ _ 22 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 20 advmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 clearly clearly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 gently gently ADV RB _ 24 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 30 mark _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 28 fixed _ _ 30 giving give VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 advcl _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 iobj _ _ 32 half half ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 34 advmod _ _ 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ _ 34 finished finished ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 worry worry NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 36 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 37 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 acl:relcl _ _ 39 out out ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 41 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 42 cop _ _ 42 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 38 xcomp _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **talk** | present | Grown ups | | | | | first, privately *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | can | ups *= up* | | | | | honest *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **work out** | infinitive | Grown ups *not said here* | things | | | | calmly *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Grown ups *not said here* | | you | | then | clearly, once *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 6 | **give** | gerund | Grown ups *not said here* | finished worry | you | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient worry=Theme | | 7 | **turn out** | might | finished worry | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **is a** | to-infinitive | finished worry *not said here* | nothing | | | | | 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:035-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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