--- title: Many grown-ups look after their own parents and their children at th… — Being a good grown-up · tree and pragmatics description: Many grown-ups look after their own parents and their children at the same time; it is loving but tiring, and small help takes some of the load off. Who acts: Many grown ups, scam, small help. A sentence of the lesson «Being a good grown-up» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its --- [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/12/) [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/) / 12 # Being a good grown-up, sentence 12 Many grown-ups look after their own parents and their children at the same time; it is loving but tiring, and small help takes some of the load off. **Who acts:** Many grown ups, scam, small help · **What happens:** grow, look, be, take off · **To what, where:** some 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 (Many grown ups, scam, small help), 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:12 # text = Many grown-ups look after their own parents and their children at the same time; it is loving but tiring, and small help takes some of the load off. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Many many 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 _ 4 punct _ _ 4 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 6 after after ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 loving loving ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 tiring tire ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=20:punct 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 28 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 27 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:det 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 load load NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:obj 32 off off ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20: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 | **look** | present | Many grown ups | | | | after passwords's own parents and passwords's children; time | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | present | scam | | | | | loving *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | scam *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **take off** | present | small help | some | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme | 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:12`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Being a good grown-up, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/11/) - next →: [Being a good grown-up, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/)