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title: When parents are not getting on, it is never the child's fault, and… — Growing up, honesty and manners · tree and pragmatics
description: When parents are not getting on, it is never the child's fault, and a trusted adult can help. Who acts: parents, crush, trusted adult. A sentence of the lesson «Growing up, honesty and manners» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Growing up, honesty and manners, sentence 20

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When parents are not getting on, it is never the child's fault, and a trusted adult can help.

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**Who acts:** parents, crush, trusted adult · **What happens:** not get on, not be, trust, help · **To what, where:** fault

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing up, honesty and manners» of the everyday 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 (parents, crush, trusted adult), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners.lesson:20
# text = When parents are not getting on, it is never the child's fault, and a trusted adult can help.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners.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	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **not** **get on** | present · progressive | parents |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | crush | the child's fault |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **help** | can | a trusted adult |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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:everyday:104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners.lesson:20`.

**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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