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title: Grown-ups sometimes behave childishly; you can love them and still s… — Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shop… · tree and pragmatics
description: Grown-ups sometimes behave childishly; you can love them and still see they got it wrong. Who acts: Grown ups, you, ups. A sentence of the lesson «Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper, sentence 32

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Grown-ups sometimes behave childishly; you can love them and still see they got it wrong.

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**Who acts:** Grown ups, you, ups · **What happens:** behave, love, see, get · **To what, where:** ups, fix · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper» 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, ups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.lesson:32
# text = Grown-ups sometimes behave childishly; you can love them and still see they got it wrong.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Grown	grown	ADJ	JJ	_	3	amod	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
3	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
5	behave	behave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	childishly	childishly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	still	still	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **behave** | present | Grown ups |  |  |  |  | childishly, sometimes *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **love** | can | you | ups *= up* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **get** | past | ups *= up* | fix |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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:483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.lesson:32`.

**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, 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.

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

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