--- title: Being a grown-up is not only paying bills and going to work; it is a… — Being a good grown-up · tree and pragmatics description: Being a grown-up is not only paying bills and going to work; it is also about what kind of person you are when things are hard. Who acts: up, you. A sentence of the lesson «Being a good grown-up» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/0/) [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/) / [Being a good grown-up](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/) / 0 # Being a good grown-up, sentence 0 Being a grown-up is not only paying bills and going to work; it is also about what kind of person you are when things are hard. **Who acts:** up, you · **What happens:** grow, not pay, go, work, be · **To what, where:** bills This is a sentence of the lesson «Being a good grown-up» 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 (up, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:040-being-a-good-grown-up.lesson:0 # text = Being a grown-up is not only paying bills and going to work; it is also about what kind of person you are when things are hard. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 040-being-a-good-grown-up.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 1 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:cop 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 8 only only ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 paying pay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 parataxis _ _ 10 bills bill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 18 also also ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 about about ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 what what DET WDT PronType=Int 21 det _ _ 21 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 26 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 advmod _ _ 27 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 28 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29: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 | **not** **pay** | present · progressive | | bills | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bill=Asset | | 3 | **go** | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **work** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | up | | | | | about what kind; of person | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | present | you | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | 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:040-being-a-good-grown-up.lesson:0`. **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. **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: [Money, work and the big choices, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/18/) - next →: [Being a good grown-up, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/)