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title: Watching a parent's mood all the time and tiptoeing is a lot to carr… — Shouty parents and bad days · tree and pragmatics
description: Watching a parent's mood all the time and tiptoeing is a lot to carry; a child can talk to the other parent or a teacher. Who acts: Watching, child. A sentence of the lesson «Shouty parents and bad days» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Shouty parents and bad days, sentence 34

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Watching a parent's mood all the time and tiptoeing is a lot to carry; a child can talk to the other parent or a teacher.

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**Who acts:** Watching, child · **What happens:** watch, be, carry, talk · **To what, where:** mood, lot

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Shouty parents and bad days» 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 (Watching, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:494-shouty-parents-and-bad-days.lesson:34
# text = Watching a parent's mood all the time and tiptoeing is a lot to carry; a child can talk to the other parent or a teacher.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 494-shouty-parents-and-bad-days.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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det
3	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	mood	mood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	tiptoeing	tiptoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | gerund |  | a parent's mood |  |  | time |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mood=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Watching | a lot |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **carry** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **talk** | can | a child |  |  |  |  | to the other parent or a teacher | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to parent=Co-Agent |

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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:494-shouty-parents-and-bad-days.lesson:34`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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