--- title: They may tell you about a time it happened to them, and they thank y… — The parents walk in: how good parents react · tree and pragmatics description: They may tell you about a time it happened to them, and they thank you for telling. Who acts: things, it. 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/4/) [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/) / 4 # The parents walk in: how good parents react, sentence 4 They may tell you about a time it happened to them, and they thank you for telling. **Who acts:** things, it · **What happens:** tell, happen, thank, telling · **To what, where:** you, time, things · **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, it), 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:4 # text = They may tell you about a time it happened to them, and they thank you for telling. # 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 ×3 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 iobj _ _ 5 about about ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 for for SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 18 telling telling VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obl 19 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | may | things *= thing* | | you | | time | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 2 | **happen** | past | it | a time *not said here* | things *= thing* | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | things *= thing* | | you | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 4 | **telling** | gerund | things *= thing* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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:4`. **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 ×3. **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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