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title: When a parent finds out that a child has seen part of an adult film,… — The parents walk in: how good parents react · tree and pragmatics
description: When a parent finds out that a child has seen part of an adult film, the first second can be a shock for them too: a sharp voice, a grabbed remote, a red face. Who acts: parent, child, first second. A sentence of the lesson «The parents walk in: how good parents react» of the adult life course of Mo
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# The parents walk in: how good parents react, sentence 0

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When a parent finds out that a child has seen part of an adult film, the first second can be a shock for them too: a sharp voice, a grabbed remote, a red face.

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**Who acts:** parent, child, first second · **What happens:** find out, see, be, grab · **To what, where:** part, shock · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The parents walk in: how good parents react» 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 (parent, child, first second), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:059-the-parents-walk-in-how-good-parents-react.lesson:0
# text = When a parent finds out that a child has seen part of an adult film, the first second can be a shock for them too: a sharp voice, a grabbed remote, a red face.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 059-the-parents-walk-in-how-good-parents-react.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): R7-rel-agree ×3
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
11	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
15	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	amod	_	_
19	second	second	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	shock	shock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	_
26	too	too	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:appos
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	grabbed	grab	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	amod	_	_
34	remote	remote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:parataxis
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find out** | present | a parent |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **see** | present · perfect | a child | part of a adult film |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer part=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | can | the first second | a shock |  |  |  | for them *= they* | tree rules |
| 4 | **grab** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:059-the-parents-walk-in-how-good-parents-react.lesson:0`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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/).

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