--- title: When grown-ups talk quietly about what happened and say your name, t… — The parents walk in: how good parents react · tree and pragmatics description: When grown-ups talk quietly about what happened and say your name, they are usually working out how to help, not plotting a punishment. Who acts: grown ups, ups, your. 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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, ups, your), 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:18 # text = When grown-ups talk quietly about what happened and say your name, they are usually working out how to help, not plotting a punishment. # 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 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 2 grown grow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 6 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 about about SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 nsubj _ _ 9 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 12 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 usually usually ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 working work VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 19 out out ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 plotting plot VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 punishment punishment NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** | present | grown ups | | | | | quietly *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **happen** | past | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | your name | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic | | 4 | **work out** | present · progressive | ups *= up* | | | | | usually *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **help** | to-infinitive | ups *= up* *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **plot** | gerund | ups *= up* *not said here* | a punishment | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent punishment=Theme | | 7 | **name** | | your | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:059-the-parents-walk-in-how-good-parents-react.lesson:18`. **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. 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