--- title: Good grown-ups do four things with scary news: they turn it down, th… — Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk abou… · tree and pragmatics description: Good grown-ups do four things with scary news: they turn it down, they tell the truth simply, they show the helpers, and they find one small thing the family can do. Who acts: Good grown ups, ups, family. 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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, ups, family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:051-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them.lesson:7 # text = Good grown-ups do four things with scary news: they turn it down, they tell the truth simply, they show the helpers, and they find one small thing the family can do. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 051-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 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 _ 4 punct _ _ 4 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 down down ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 simply simply ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advmod 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 helpers helper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 31 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 32 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 36 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 acl:relcl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **do** | present | Good grown ups | four things | | | | with scary news | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 3 | **turn down** | present | ups *= up* | country | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | ups *= up* | the truth | | | | simply *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **show** | present | ups *= up* | the helpers | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent helper=Recipient | | 6 | **find** | present | ups *= up* | one small thing | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | | 7 | **do** | can | the family | one small thing *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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:051-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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. 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