--- title: Only children often spend lots of time with adults, so they may talk… — The only child: a quiet house · tree and pragmatics description: Only children often spend lots of time with adults, so they may talk like adults and find silly play harder at first. Who acts: children, lots. A sentence of the lesson «The only child: a quiet house» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/36/) [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/) / [The only child: a quiet house](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/) / 36 # The only child: a quiet house, sentence 36 Only children often spend lots of time with adults, so they may talk like adults and find silly play harder at first. **Who acts:** children, lots · **What happens:** spend, talk, find · **To what, where:** lots, silly play This is a sentence of the lesson «The only child: a quiet house» 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 (children, lots), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house.lesson:36 # text = Only children often spend lots of time with adults, so they may talk like adults and find silly play harder at first. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Only only ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 often often ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 spend spend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 15 like like ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 play play NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 harder hard ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 18 advmod _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 21 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spend** | present | children | lots of time | | | | with adults; often *property* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Asset | | 2 | **talk** | may | lots *= lot* | | | | | like adults | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **find** | infinitive | lots *= lot* *not said here* | silly play | | | | hard *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent play=Topic | 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:498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [The only child: a quiet house, 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/35/) - next →: [The only child: a quiet house, 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/37/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/)