--- title: Good grown-ups keep their promises, say no kindly when they have too… — Being a good grown-up · tree and pragmatics description: Good grown-ups keep their promises, say no kindly when they have too much, ask for help, own up to mistakes, stay kind when stressed, spot tricks and look after the people who need them. Who acts: Good grown ups, things, people. 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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 (Good grown ups, things, people), 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:1 # text = Good grown-ups keep their promises, say no kindly when they have too much, ask for help, own up to mistakes, stay kind when stressed, spot tricks and look after the people who need them. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 2 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 promises promise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:discourse|HaikuPos=INTJ:UH:_ 10 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 5 discourse _ _ 11 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 15 too too ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 18 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 own own VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 23 up up ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 mistakes mistake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 stay stay VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 28 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 29 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 30 advmod _ _ 30 stressed stress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:advcl 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct 32 spot spot VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 33 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 36 after after ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 39 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 40 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 41 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | 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 | **keep** | present | Good grown ups | things's promises | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Good grown ups *not said here* | | | | | kindly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **have** | present | things *= thing* | much | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | Good grown ups *not said here* | | | | | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **own up** *not said to happen* | infinitive | Good grown ups *not said here* | | | | | to mistakes | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 7 | **stay** | infinitive | Good grown ups *not said here* | | | | | kind *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **stress** | participle | Good grown ups *not said here* | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 9 | **spot** | infinitive | Good grown ups *not said here* | tricks | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme trick=Destination | | 10 | **look** | infinitive | Good grown ups *not said here* | | | | after the people | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 11 | **need** | present | the people | things *= thing* | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme | | 12 | **promise** | | things *= thing* | | | | | | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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:040-being-a-good-grown-up.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, 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: [Being a good grown-up, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/0/) - next →: [Being a good grown-up, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/)