--- title: Grown-ups also live through changes they cannot stop: getting older,… — Being a good grown-up · tree and pragmatics description: Grown-ups also live through changes they cannot stop: getting older, parents slowing down, friends drifting away and children leaving home. Who acts: Grown ups, things, parents, friends. 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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, things, parents, friends), 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:3 # text = Grown-ups also live through changes they cannot stop: getting older, parents slowing down, friends drifting away and children leaving home. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 compound _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 3 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 also also ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 through through ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 changes change NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl:relcl _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 13 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 14 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 xcomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=13:punct 16 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 slowing slow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 18 down down ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 drifting drift VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 conj _ _ 22 away away ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 25 leaving leave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 acl _ _ 26 home home ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - 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 | **live** | present | Grown ups | | | changes | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through change=Location | | 3 | **not** **stop** | can | things *= thing* | changes *not said here* | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality change=Eventuality | | 4 | **get** | gerund | Grown ups *not said here* | | | | | old *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **slow down** | gerund | parents | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **drift away** | gerund | friends and children | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **leave** | gerund | friends and children *not said here* | | | | | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:3`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Being a good grown-up, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/1/) - next →: [Being a good grown-up, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/)