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title: When a parent is very tired, ill, sad or drinking, a child often not… — Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted a… · tree and pragmatics
description: When a parent is very tired, ill, sad or drinking, a child often notices first. Who acts: parent, child. A sentence of the lesson «Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult, sentence 29

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When a parent is very tired, ill, sad or drinking, a child often notices first.

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**Who acts:** parent, child · **What happens:** be, drink, notice

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult» 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, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:497-tired-sad-or-drinking-parents-tell-a-trusted-adult.lesson:29
# text = When a parent is very tired, ill, sad or drinking, a child often notices first.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 497-tired-sad-or-drinking-parents-tell-a-trusted-adult.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	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	often	often	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	notices	notice	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	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 |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | a parent *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | a parent *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **drink** | gerund | a parent *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **notice** | present | a child |  |  |  |  | first, often *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:497-tired-sad-or-drinking-parents-tell-a-trusted-adult.lesson:29`.

**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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