--- title: "Mustn't grumble" is an old-fashioned way of saying "I'd rather not… — Sorry, white lies and «because I said so» · tree and pragmatics description: "Mustn't grumble" is an old-fashioned way of saying "I'd rather not complain"; many older people hide small pains so others won't worry. Who acts: fashioned way, many older people, others. 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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 (fashioned way, many older people, others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:037-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so.lesson:16 # text = "Mustn't grumble" is an old-fashioned way of saying "I'd rather not complain"; many older people hide small pains so others won't worry. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 037-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 Must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 grumble grumble VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 7 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 8 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 10 fashioned fashioned ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 of of SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 16 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 17 rather rather ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 complain complain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 amod _ _ 24 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 26 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 pains pain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 29 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 30 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 worry worry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, indirect=0, hedge=0, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **grumble** *speech: other* *in a quote* | must | | | | | | | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **is a** | present | | a fashioned way | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a fashioned way *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **complain** *speech: other* *in a quote* | would | a fashioned way *= way* | | | | | | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **hide** | present | many older people | small pains | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Patient | | 6 | **not** **worry** | future | others | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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:037-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so.lesson:16`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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. 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