--- title: If you're not sure whether a quiet parent cares, you can notice what… — Cold parents: always on the phone · tree and pragmatics description: If you're not sure whether a quiet parent cares, you can notice what they do and you can ask. Who acts: you, quiet parent, parents. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone/41/) [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/) / [Cold parents: always on the phone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone/) / 41 # Cold parents: always on the phone, sentence 41 If you're not sure whether a quiet parent cares, you can notice what they do and you can ask. **Who acts:** you, quiet parent, parents · **What happens:** not be, care, notice, do, ask · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (you, quiet parent, parents), 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:41 # text = If you're not sure whether a quiet parent cares, you can notice what they do and you can ask. # 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): no change 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 advcl _ _ 6 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 cares care VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 notice notice VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 15 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 17 obj _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **care** | present | a quiet parent | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **notice** | can | you | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **do** | present | parents *= parent* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | can | you | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone.lesson:41`. **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/). - ← previous: [Cold parents: always on the phone, 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone/40/) - next →: [Parents who row, and one kind and one…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/496-parents-who-row-and-one-kind-and-one-not/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone/)