--- title: Grown-ups sometimes hide sadness to protect children; you can say «Y… — Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van · tree and pragmatics description: Grown-ups sometimes hide sadness to protect children; you can say «You don't look fine. Who acts: Grown ups, you. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van/37/) [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/) / [Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van/) / 37 # Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van, sentence 37 Grown-ups sometimes hide sadness to protect children; you can say «You don't look fine. **Who acts:** Grown ups, you · **What happens:** grow, hide, protect, say, not look · **To what, where:** sadness, children · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, you), 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:37 # text = Grown-ups sometimes hide sadness to protect children; you can say «You don't look fine. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 sometimes sometimes ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 sadness sadness NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl 9 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 14 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 15 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 19 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **hide** | present | Grown ups | sadness | | | | sometimes *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sadness=Patient | | 3 | **protect** | to-infinitive | Grown ups *not said here* | | children | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | you | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **not** **look** *in a quote* | present · do-support | You | | | | | fine *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van.lesson:37`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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