--- title: Whether two grown-ups will marry is their private business; asking c… — Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and t… · tree and pragmatics description: Whether two grown-ups will marry is their private business; asking can make them shy, so if a little one asks, kindly change the subject. Who acts: two grown ups, asking, little one. 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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 (two grown ups, asking, little one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners.lesson:15 # text = Whether two grown-ups will marry is their private business; asking can make them shy, so if a little one asks, kindly change the subject. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Whether whether SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 2 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 3 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 6 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 csubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 business business NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 csubj _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 shy shy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 20 if if SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 change change VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 subject subject NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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 | **marry** | future | two grown ups | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | present | | ups's private business | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **make** | can | asking | ups *= up* | | | | shy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a little one | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **change** | infinitive | | the subject | | | | kindly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | 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. 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