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title: That one hurts the most, because grown-ups are meant to be fair and… — Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels · tree and pragmatics
description: That one hurts the most, because grown-ups are meant to be fair and kind. Who acts: one. A sentence of the lesson «Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels, sentence 9

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That one hurts the most, because grown-ups are meant to be fair and kind.

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** hurt, grow, mean, be · **To what, where:** grown ups

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels» 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 (one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels.lesson:9
# text = That one hurts the most, because grown-ups are meant to be fair and kind.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels.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	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	meant	mean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurt** | present | that one |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **mean** | present · passive |  | grown ups |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels.lesson:9`.

**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/).

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