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title: A parent who is fun is great, but children also need a parent who li… — Warm parents and strict parents · tree and pragmatics
description: A parent who is fun is great, but children also need a parent who listens when they are sad. Who acts: parent, children, child. A sentence of the lesson «Warm parents and strict parents» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Warm parents and strict parents, sentence 38

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A parent who is fun is great, but children also need a parent who listens when they are sad.

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**Who acts:** parent, children, child · **What happens:** be, need, listen · **To what, where:** parent

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Warm parents and strict parents» 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 (parent, children, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:493-warm-parents-and-strict-parents.lesson:38
# text = A parent who is fun is great, but children also need a parent who listens when they are sad.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 493-warm-parents-and-strict-parents.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	fun	fun	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	also	also	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	listens	listen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	20	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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** | present | a parent |  |  |  |  | fun *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | a parent |  |  |  |  | great *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **need** | present | children | a parent |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot parent=Theme |
| 4 | **listen** | present | a parent |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | child |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | 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:493-warm-parents-and-strict-parents.lesson:38`.

**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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