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What the grown-ups say, sentence 26 Grown-ups can be wrong; you can listen to them kindly and still choose the safer way. **Who acts:** Grown ups, you · **What happens:** be, listen, choose · **To what, where:** ups, safer way This is a sentence of the lesson ««Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What the grown-ups say» 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 (Grown ups, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:391-just-hit-him-back-or-tell-a-teacher.lesson:26 # text = Grown-ups can be wrong; you can listen to them kindly and still choose the safer way. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 391-just-hit-him-back-or-tell-a-teacher.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Grown grow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 3 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 cop _ _ 6 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 listen listen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ _ 13 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc 15 still still ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 safer safe ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 amod _ _ 19 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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** | can | Grown ups | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **listen** | can | you | | ups *= up* | | | kindly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=Theme | | 3 | **choose** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the safer way | | | still | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | 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:391-just-hit-him-back-or-tell-a-teacher.lesson:26`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-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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