--- title: Grown-ups often use soft words for these things, like "letting peopl… — When work goes wrong · tree and pragmatics description: Grown-ups often use soft words for these things, like "letting people go" or "between jobs", so it is worth knowing what they really mean. Who acts: Grown ups, people, knowing. 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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 (Grown ups, people, knowing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:004-when-work-goes-wrong.lesson:1 # text = Grown-ups often use soft words for these things, like "letting people go" or "between jobs", so it is worth knowing what they really mean. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 004-when-work-goes-wrong.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 often often ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 10 det _ _ 10 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 like like SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 letting let VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 15 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 20 between between ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 jobs job NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:nsubj 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 worth worth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 28 knowing know VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:advcl 29 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 32 obj _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 really really ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 ccomp _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **use** | present | Grown ups | soft words | | | | for this things; often *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent word=Theme for thing=Eventuality | | 3 | **let** *in a quote* | gerund | Grown ups *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | people | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | knowing | | | | | worth *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **know** | gerund | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **mean** | present | people | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | 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:004-when-work-goes-wrong.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [When work goes wrong, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/0/) - next →: [When work goes wrong, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/)