--- title: At bedtime Mum explains he had an awful week at work, and Dad comes… — Big feelings in big people · tree and pragmatics description: At bedtime Mum explains he had an awful week at work, and Dad comes up and says, "Sorry, mate. Who acts: Mum, dog, Dad. A sentence of the lesson «Big feelings in big people» 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/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/4/) [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/) / [Big feelings in big people](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/) / 4 # Big feelings in big people, sentence 4 At bedtime Mum explains he had an awful week at work, and Dad comes up and says, "Sorry, mate. **Who acts:** Mum, dog, Dad · **What happens:** explain, have, come up, say · **To what, where:** bedtime, work · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Big feelings in big people» 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, dog, Dad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:036-big-feelings-in-big-people.lesson:4 # text = At bedtime Mum explains he had an awful week at work, and Dad comes up and says, "Sorry, mate. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 036-big-feelings-in-big-people.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 bedtime bedtime NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 3 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 explains explain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 7 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 awful awful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 Dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 15 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 16 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 21 Sorry sorry INTJ UH _ 15 discourse _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 23 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 vocative _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:vocative 24 . . 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 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | Mum | | | bedtime | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **have** | past | dog | | | work | week | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **come up** | present | Dad | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Dad *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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:036-big-feelings-in-big-people.lesson:4`. **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, 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: [Big feelings in big people, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/3/) - next →: [Big feelings in big people, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/)