--- title: "Quiet time" means a rest or calming down that the child must take. — Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour… · tree and pragmatics description: "Quiet time" means a rest or calming down that the child must take. Who acts: Quiet time, child. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and school reports and teachers» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/15-behaviour-and-school-reports/17/) [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/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: children's…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/15-behaviour-and-school-reports/) / 17 # Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and school reports and teachers, sentence 17 "Quiet time" means a rest or calming down that the child must take. **Who acts:** Quiet time, child · **What happens:** mean, calm down, take · **To what, where:** rest This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and school reports and teachers» of the euphemisms 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 (Quiet time, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:015-behaviour-and-school-reports.lesson:17 # text = "Quiet time" means a rest or calming down that the child must take. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 015-behaviour-and-school-reports.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): R5-strong ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 calming calm VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 10 down down ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 obj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl:relcl _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Quiet time | a rest | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Topic | | 2 | **calm down** | gerund | Quiet time *not said here* | | | | | down *property* | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **take** | must | the child | a rest | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | 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:015-behaviour-and-school-reports.lesson:17`. **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): R5-strong ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: children's…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/15-behaviour-and-school-reports/16/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: children's…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/15-behaviour-and-school-reports/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/15-behaviour-and-school-reports/)