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title: Grown-ups are humans who get tired, want peace and don't want to ups… — Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van · tree and pragmatics
description: Grown-ups are humans who get tired, want peace and don't want to upset anyone. Who acts: Grown ups, humans. A sentence of the lesson «Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van, sentence 28

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Grown-ups are humans who get tired, want peace and don't want to upset anyone.

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**Who acts:** Grown ups, humans · **What happens:** be, get, want, not want, upset · **To what, where:** humans, peace, anyone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van» 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, humans), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van.lesson:28
# text = Grown-ups are humans who get tired, want peace and don't want to upset anyone.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Grown	grow	NOUN	NN	_	3	compound	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
3	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	humans	human	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	upset	upset	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	17	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Grown ups | humans |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | present | humans |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **want** | present | humans *not said here* | peace |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot peace=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **want** | present · do-support | humans *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **upset** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | humans *not said here* | anyone |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus anyone=Experiencer |

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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:443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van.lesson:28`.

**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): R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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