--- title: Grown-ups' talk you may overhear is private: «his dad's left» means… — Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds · tree and pragmatics description: Grown-ups' talk you may overhear is private: «his dad's left» means the dad no longer lives with the family, so be kind and do not repeat it; and teasing that two friends are «married» or a couple is just teasing, which you can ignore. Who acts: you, talk, dad, couple. 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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 (you, talk, dad, couple), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:228-parks-and-playgrounds.lesson:25 # text = Grown-ups' talk you may overhear is private: «his dad's left» means the dad no longer lives with the family, so be kind and do not repeat it; and teasing that two friends are «married» or a couple is just teasing, which you can ignore. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 228-parks-and-playgrounds.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 ' 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 overhear overhear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 parataxis _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 18 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obj 21 no no ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 23 advmod _ _ 23 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:conj 24 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 cop _ _ 30 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 repeat repeat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 teasing tease VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 parataxis _ _ 39 that that SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 40 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ _ 41 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nsubj:pass _ _ 42 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux:pass _ _ 43 « « PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=44:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 44 married marry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:advcl 45 » » PUNCT '' _ 44 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=51:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 46 or or CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 couple couple NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nsubj _ _ 49 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 aux _ _ 50 just just ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ _ 51 teasing tease VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 44 conj _ _ 52 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 53 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 56 obj _ _ 54 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 56 nsubj _ _ 55 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 56 aux _ _ 56 ignore ignore VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 51 acl:relcl _ _ 57 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **overhear** | may | you | Grown ups's talk *not said here* | | | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer talk=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | present | Grown ups's talk | | | | | private *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **leave** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **live** | present | the dad | | | | | with the family; long *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with family=Location | | 7 | **is** | infinitive | | | | | | kind *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **not** **repeat** | infinitive · do-support | | talk | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 9 | **tease** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **marry** *in a quote* | present · passive | | two friends | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 11 | **tease** | present · progressive | a couple | | | | | | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 12 | **ignore** | can | you | | | | | | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | | 13 | **talk** | | Grown ups | | | | | | nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=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:everyday:228-parks-and-playgrounds.lesson:25`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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: [Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/228-parks-and-playgrounds/24/) - next →: [Safe and kind in gardens and forests, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/229-gardens-and-forests/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/228-parks-and-playgrounds/)