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title: A grown-up who keeps calling a child names and blaming her is not ok… — Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted a… · tree and pragmatics
description: A grown-up who keeps calling a child names and blaming her is not okay, and the child is not to blame. Who acts: grown, 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 o
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# Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult, sentence 36

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A grown-up who keeps calling a child names and blaming her is not okay, and the child is not to blame.

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**Who acts:** grown, child · **What happens:** keep, call, blame, not be, not blame · **To what, where:** child names, child · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (grown, 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:36
# text = A grown-up who keeps calling a child names and blaming her is not okay, and the child is not to blame.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:det
2	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nsubj
6	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:acl:relcl
7	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	xcomp	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	blaming	blame	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	conj	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	okay	okay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=16:punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	blame	blame	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | gerund |  | a child names |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient |
| 3 | **blame** | gerund |  | child |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **is** | present | grown |  |  |  |  | okay *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **blame** | present | the child |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:497-tired-sad-or-drinking-parents-tell-a-trusted-adult.lesson:36`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3. **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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