--- title: They answer questions simply, or say "that's a good question, let me… — The parents walk in: how good parents react · tree and pragmatics description: They answer questions simply, or say "that's a good question, let me think how to explain it". Who acts: things, that. 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/3/) [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/) / 3 # The parents walk in: how good parents react, sentence 3 They answer questions simply, or say "that's a good question, let me think how to explain it". **Who acts:** things, that · **What happens:** answer, say, be, let, think, explain · **To what, where:** questions, good question, things, 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 (things, that), 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:3 # text = They answer questions simply, or say "that's a good question, let me think how to explain it". # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 answer answer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 simply simply ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 9 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 nsubj _ _ 10 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 16 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 explain explain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 ccomp _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: suggest - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | things *= thing* | questions | | | | simply *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | things *= thing* *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | a good question | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | things *= thing* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | infinitive | things *= thing* *not said here* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **explain** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | child | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | 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:3`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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