--- title: A closed door and low voices usually mean grown-up business, such as… — Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: A closed door and low voices usually mean grown-up business, such as a worry, a plan or a surprise, and it is usually not about the child. Who acts: closed door, worry. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its depende --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/61-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on/15/) [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/) / [Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/61-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on/) / 15 # Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★, sentence 15 A closed door and low voices usually mean grown-up business, such as a worry, a plan or a surprise, and it is usually not about the child. **Who acts:** closed door, worry · **What happens:** close, mean, grow up, not be · **To what, where:** grown business This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★» 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 (closed door, worry), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:061-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on.lesson:15 # text = A closed door and low voices usually mean grown-up business, such as a worry, a plan or a surprise, and it is usually not about the child. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 061-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on.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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 closed close VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 3 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 voices voice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 7 usually usually ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ _ 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=9:compound 12 business business NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 17 case _ _ 15 as as ADP IN _ 14 fixed _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 worry worry NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 surprise surprise NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 28 usually usually ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 30 about about ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **close** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **mean** | present | a closed door and low voices | grown business | | | | such a worry and a plan or a surprise; usually *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Topic | | 3 | **grow up** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **is** | present | worry | | | | | about the child; usually *property* | 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:061-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on.lesson:15`. **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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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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