--- title: When people say two adults are "seeing" each other, they mean the tw… — Your uh-oh feeling · tree and pragmatics description: When people say two adults are "seeing" each other, they mean the two are a couple, going out together; that is their own private business. Who acts: people, two adults, two, couple. A sentence of the lesson «Your uh-oh feeling» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/19-uh-oh-feeling/22/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Your uh-oh feeling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/19-uh-oh-feeling/) / 22 # Your uh-oh feeling, sentence 22 When people say two adults are "seeing" each other, they mean the two are a couple, going out together; that is their own private business. **Who acts:** people, two adults, two, couple, that · **What happens:** say, see, mean, be, go out · **To what, where:** each, couple, own private business · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Your uh-oh feeling» 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 (people, two adults, two, couple), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:019-uh-oh-feeling.lesson:22 # text = When people say two adults are "seeing" each other, they mean the two are a couple, going out together; that is their own private business. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 019-uh-oh-feeling.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 4 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 seeing see VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 ccomp _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 8 obj _ _ 11 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 fixed _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nsubj _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 couple couple NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 ccomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:conj 22 out out ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 together together ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 28 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 business business NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 parataxis _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | people | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **see** *in a quote* | present · progressive | two adults | each | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus | | 3 | **mean** | present | people | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | the two | a couple | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **go out** | gerund | a couple *not said here* | | | | | out, together *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | present | that | people's own private business | | | | | 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:everyday:019-uh-oh-feeling.lesson:22`. **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): R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Your uh-oh feeling, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/19-uh-oh-feeling/21/) - next →: [Your uh-oh feeling, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/19-uh-oh-feeling/23/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/19-uh-oh-feeling/)