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title: Some parents are cold or distant because of their own stress or upbr… — Cold parents: always on the phone · tree and pragmatics
description: Some parents are cold or distant because of their own stress or upbringing; it is not the child's fault. Who acts: parents, ask. A sentence of the lesson «Cold parents: always on the phone» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cold parents: always on the phone, sentence 33

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Some parents are cold or distant because of their own stress or upbringing; it is not the child's fault.

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**Who acts:** parents, ask · **What happens:** be, not be, stress · **To what, where:** fault

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cold parents: always on the phone» 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 (parents, ask), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone.lesson:33
# text = Some parents are cold or distant because of their own stress or upbringing; it is not the child's fault.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone.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
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	11	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	stress	stress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	upbringing	upbringing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det
19	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | some parents |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | some parents *not said here* |  |  |  |  | because parents's own stress or upbringing | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present | ask | the child's fault |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stress** |  | parents *= parent* |  |  |  |  |  | nom stress «communication transitive»: poss=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:495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone.lesson:33`.

**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. **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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