--- title: ADHD is a difference in how the brain works, not naughtiness, and it… — Visiting, thanking for presents, waiting to spea… · tree and pragmatics description: ADHD is a difference in how the brain works, not naughtiness, and it can make sitting still hard. Who acts: ADHD, brain. A sentence of the lesson «Visiting, thanking for presents, waiting to speak, places of worship and museums, compliments, and classmates with autism, ADHD or hidden disabilities» o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/324-visiting-thank-you-notes-interrupting-quiet-places-compliments-and-differences/17/) [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/) / [Visiting, thanking for presents, waiti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/324-visiting-thank-you-notes-interrupting-quiet-places-compliments-and-differences/) / 17 # Visiting, thanking for presents, waiting to speak, places of worship and museums, compliments, and classmates with autism, ADHD or hidden disabilities, sentence 17 ADHD is a difference in how the brain works, not naughtiness, and it can make sitting still hard. **Who acts:** ADHD, brain · **What happens:** be, work, make, sit · **To what, where:** difference, naughtiness This is a sentence of the lesson «Visiting, thanking for presents, waiting to speak, places of worship and museums, compliments, and classmates with autism, ADHD or hidden disabilities» 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 (ADHD, brain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:324-visiting-thank-you-notes-interrupting-quiet-places-compliments-and-differences.lesson:17 # text = ADHD is a difference in how the brain works, not naughtiness, and it can make sitting still hard. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 324-visiting-thank-you-notes-interrupting-quiet-places-compliments-and-differences.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 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 naughtiness naughtiness NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 18 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 xcomp _ _ 19 still still ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 18 advmod _ _ 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 | naughtiness | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **make** | can | brain | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **sit** | gerund | brain *not said here* | | | | | hard *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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:324-visiting-thank-you-notes-interrupting-quiet-places-compliments-and-differences.lesson:17`. **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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