--- title: Grown-ups must sometimes say no, or they do too much and get exhaust… — Being a good grown-up · tree and pragmatics description: Grown-ups must sometimes say no, or they do too much and get exhausted; a kind, clear no is better than a yes that never gets done. Who acts: Grown ups, kind clear no. 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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, kind clear no), 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:7 # text = Grown-ups must sometimes say no, or they do too much and get exhausted; a kind, clear no is better than a yes that never gets done. # 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): R5-strong ×5 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 6 nsubj _ _ 4 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 6 advmod _ _ 6 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 6 discourse _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nsubj 11 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 too too ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 16 exhausted exhaust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 xcomp _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 19 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 no no NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 parataxis _ _ 25 than than ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 yes yes NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:nsubj 29 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 31 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:advmod 30 gets get AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:xcomp 32 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | must | Grown ups | much | | | | sometimes *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent much=Topic | | 3 | **get** | infinitive | Grown ups *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **exhaust** | participle | Grown ups *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is** | present | a kind clear no | | | | | than a yes; good *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **do** | present · passive | | a yes | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | 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:7`. **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): R5-strong ×5. **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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/6/) - next →: [Being a good grown-up, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/)