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title: Sorting it is the grown-ups' job, not the child's, and asking for he… — Borrowing and debt · tree and pragmatics
description: Sorting it is the grown-ups' job, not the child's, and asking for help early is the sensible move. Who acts: Sorting, asking. A sentence of the lesson «Borrowing and debt» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Borrowing and debt, sentence 10

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Sorting it is the grown-ups' job, not the child's, and asking for help early is the sensible move.

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**Who acts:** Sorting, asking · **What happens:** sort, grow, be, ask · **To what, where:** Debt, job, sensible move

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Borrowing and debt» 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 (Sorting, asking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:008-borrowing-and-debt.lesson:10
# text = Sorting it is the grown-ups' job, not the child's, and asking for help early is the sensible move.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 008-borrowing-and-debt.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	Sorting	sort	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	csubj	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
5	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
7	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	'	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	csubj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	sensible	sensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	move	move	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sort** | gerund |  | Debt |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Sorting | grown ups's job and the child and the sensible move |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for help; early *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present | asking | the sensible move |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:008-borrowing-and-debt.lesson:10`.

**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/).

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