--- title: Later Mum explains: Grandpa needs a small operation and they were pl… — Closed doors, whispers and secrets · tree and pragmatics description: Later Mum explains: Grandpa needs a small operation and they were planning the trip to visit him. Who acts: Mum, Grandpa, ups. 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 clause. --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Closed doors, whispers and secrets, sentence 5 Later Mum explains: Grandpa needs a small operation and they were planning the trip to visit him. **Who acts:** Mum, Grandpa, ups · **What happens:** explain, need, plan, visit · **To what, where:** small operation, trip, Grandpa · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Mum, Grandpa, ups), 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:5 # text = Later Mum explains: Grandpa needs a small operation and they were planning the trip to visit him. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 3 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod 2 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 explains explain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 5 Grandpa grandpa NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 operation operation NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 planning plan VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 trip trip NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 visit visit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | Mum | | | | | late *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **need** | present | Grandpa | a small operation | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot operation=Theme | | 3 | **plan** | past · progressive | ups *= up* | the trip | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trip=Topic | | 4 | **visit** | to-infinitive | ups *= up* *not said here* | Grandpa | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | 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:5`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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: [Closed doors, whispers and secrets, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets/2/) - next →: [Closed doors, whispers and secrets, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets/)