--- title: "Tired" said about a child often means cranky (grumpy) or having a t… — Soft words for hard things: relations and family… · tree and pragmatics description: "Tired" said about a child often means cranky (grumpy) or having a tantrum (a fit of screaming and crying). Who acts: fit. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:014-family-and-behaviour.lesson:8 # text = "Tired" said about a child often means cranky (grumpy) or having a tantrum (a fit of screaming and crying). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 014-family-and-behaviour.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 ccomp _ _ 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 about about ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 8 often often ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 10 cranky cranky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 12 grumpy grumpy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 13 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 tantrum tantrum NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 fit fit NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ _ 21 of of SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 22 screaming scream VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:nmod 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=22:cc 24 crying cry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 conj _ _ 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | about a child; cranky, often *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **have** | gerund | | a tantrum | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tantrum=Patient | | 4 | **scream** *speech: express* | gerund | a fit *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | a fit *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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:euphemisms:014-family-and-behaviour.lesson:8`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: relations…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/14-family-and-behaviour/7/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: relations…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/14-family-and-behaviour/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/14-family-and-behaviour/)