---
title: When a little one goes quiet, it is often because they have found so… — Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at… · tree and pragmatics
description: When a little one goes quiet, it is often because they have found something they should not have, so it is worth checking. Who acts: little one, toddler, things, it. A sentence of the lesson «Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with i
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp/2/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire an…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp/) / 2

# Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home, sentence 2

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
When a little one goes quiet, it is often because they have found something they should not have, so it is worth checking.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** little one, toddler, things, it · **What happens:** go, be, not have, check

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home» 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 (little one, toddler, things, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp.lesson:2
# text = When a little one goes quiet, it is often because they have found something they should not have, so it is worth checking.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp.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	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
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	often	often	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
15	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	14	obj	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
25	checking	check	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	ccomp	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | a little one |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present · perfect | toddler |  |  |  |  | find, often *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **have** | should | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **check** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp.lesson:2`.

**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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire an…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp/1/)
- next →: [Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire an…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp/3/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp/)

