---
title: Then good parents calm down and do the important things: make sure t… — The parents walk in: how good parents react · tree and pragmatics
description: Then good parents calm down and do the important things: make sure the child is all right, make clear it is not their fault, and listen. Who acts: good parents, important things, child. A sentence of the lesson «The parents walk in: how good parents react» of the adult life course of Mova's primary 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/59-the-parents-walk-in-how-good-parents-react/1/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [The parents walk in: how good parents…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/59-the-parents-walk-in-how-good-parents-react/) / 1

# The parents walk in: how good parents react, sentence 1

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Then good parents calm down and do the important things: make sure the child is all right, make clear it is not their fault, and listen.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** good parents, important things, child · **What happens:** calm down, do, make, be, not be, listen · **To what, where:** important things, fault

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (good parents, important things, child), 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:1
# text = Then good parents calm down and do the important things: make sure the child is all right, make clear it is not their fault, and listen.
# 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): no change
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	calm	calm	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
13	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	all	all	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	ccomp	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
21	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	ccomp	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	listen	listen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **calm down** | present | good parents |  |  |  | then |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | infinitive | good parents *not said here* | the important things |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive | the important things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **is** | present | the child |  |  |  |  | all, right *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | infinitive | the important things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | clear *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 6 | **not** **is a** | present | child | things's fault |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **listen** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:1`.

**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): no change. **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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [The parents walk in: how good parents…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/59-the-parents-walk-in-how-good-parents-react/0/)
- next →: [The parents walk in: how good parents…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/59-the-parents-walk-in-how-good-parents-react/2/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/59-the-parents-walk-in-how-good-parents-react/)

