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title: Knowing what a grown-up is feeling helps you be kind, and it helps y… — Big feelings in big people · tree and pragmatics
description: Knowing what a grown-up is feeling helps you be kind, and it helps you see that the feeling is usually not your fault. Who acts: grown up, Knowing, film, you. 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 prag
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# Big feelings in big people, sentence 7

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Knowing what a grown-up is feeling helps you be kind, and it helps you see that the feeling is usually not your fault.

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**Who acts:** grown up, Knowing, film, you, feeling · **What happens:** know, grow, feel, help, be, see · **To what, where:** you, fault · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (grown up, Knowing, film, you), 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:7
# text = Knowing what a grown-up is feeling helps you be kind, and it helps you see that the feeling is usually not your fault.
# 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): no change
1	Knowing	know	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	ccomp	_	_
9	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
23	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	ccomp	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **feel** | present · progressive | a grown up |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 4 | **help** | present | Knowing |  | you |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **is** | infinitive | Knowing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | kind *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **help** | present | film | you |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 7 | **see** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **not** **is a** | present | the feeling | your fault |  |  |  | usually *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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): no change. **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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