--- title: Parents may ask to see the chat or the TV history to understand what… — The parents walk in: how good parents react · tree and pragmatics description: Parents may ask to see the chat or the TV history to understand what happened and fix it, not to spy. Who acts: Parents. A sentence of the lesson «The parents walk in: how good parents react» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus --- [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/20/) [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/) / 20 # The parents walk in: how good parents react, sentence 20 Parents may ask to see the chat or the TV history to understand what happened and fix it, not to spy. **Who acts:** Parents · **What happens:** ask, see, understand, happen, fix, not spy · **To what, where:** chat, history · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Parents), 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:20 # text = Parents may ask to see the chat or the TV history to understand what happened and fix it, not to spy. # 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 Parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 chat chat NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 TV TV NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 14 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 15 nsubj _ _ 15 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 fix fix VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 spy spy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | may | Parents | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Parents *not said here* | the chat or the TV history | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chat=Stimulus | | 3 | **understand** | to-infinitive | Parents *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **happen** | past | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **fix** | infinitive | Parents *not said here* | history | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 6 | **not** **spy** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | 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:20`. **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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