--- title: Parents feel nervous for the people they love even when only watchin… — Sorry, white lies and «because I said so» · tree and pragmatics description: Parents feel nervous for the people they love even when only watching, then pride and relief rush in; their nerves show how much they care, not that they thought you'd fail. Who acts: Parents, pride, nerves, you. 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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 (Parents, pride, nerves, you), 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:18 # text = Parents feel nervous for the people they love even when only watching, then pride and relief rush in; their nerves show how much they care, not that they thought you'd fail. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 nervous nervous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis 9 even even ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 11 only only ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 watching watch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 xcomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ _ 15 pride pride NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc 17 relief relief NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 rush rush VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 19 in in ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 nerves nerve NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 24 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 25 much much ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 care care VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 30 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 fail fail VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 ccomp _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | present | Parents | | | | | nervous *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **love** | present | parents *= parent* | the people *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **watch** *not said to happen* | gerund | parents *= parent* *not said here* | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **rush in** | present | pride and relief | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **show** | present | pride's nerves | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **care** | present | nerves *= nerve* | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past | nerves *= nerve* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 8 | **fail** | would | you | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: 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:037-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so.lesson:18`. **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, 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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