--- title: Thanking a child for telling makes it easier for them to tell again. — The parents walk in: how good parents react · tree and pragmatics description: Thanking a child for telling makes it easier for them to tell again. Who acts: Thanking, families. 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 clause. --- [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/24/) [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/) / 24 # The parents walk in: how good parents react, sentence 24 Thanking a child for telling makes it easier for them to tell again. **Who acts:** Thanking, families · **What happens:** thank, tell, make · **To what, where:** child · **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 (Thanking, families), 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:24 # text = Thanking a child for telling makes it easier for them to tell again. # 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 Thanking thank VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 for for SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 5 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ 6 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 8 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 xcomp _ _ 9 for for SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 13 again again ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | gerund | | | a child | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **make** | present | Thanking | | | | | easy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | families *= family* | | | | again | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:24`. **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/). - ← previous: [The parents walk in: how good parents…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/59-the-parents-walk-in-how-good-parents-react/22/) - next →: [The parents walk in: how good parents…, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/59-the-parents-walk-in-how-good-parents-react/25/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/59-the-parents-walk-in-how-good-parents-react/)