--- title: ADHD is a difference in how the brain works that can make sitting st… — Compliments, respecting differences and disabili… · tree and pragmatics description: ADHD is a difference in how the brain works that can make sitting still hard; it is not naughtiness. Who acts: ADHD, brain, that. 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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 (ADHD, brain, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:298-compliments-differences-and-disabilities.lesson:19 # text = ADHD is a difference in how the brain works that can make sitting still hard; it is not naughtiness. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 298-compliments-differences-and-disabilities.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 ADHD adhd NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 difference difference NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 in in SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 6 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 13 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 obj _ _ 14 still still ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 naughtiness naughtiness NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 21 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | ADHD | a difference | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **work** | present | the brain | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **make** | can | that | | | | | hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **sit** | gerund | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **is a** | present | brain | naughtiness | | | | | 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:298-compliments-differences-and-disabilities.lesson:19`. **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. 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