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title: Grown-ups often don't tell kids the details, and fixing it isn't a c… — Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row no… · tree and pragmatics
description: Grown-ups often don't tell kids the details, and fixing it isn't a child's job. Who acts: Grown ups, fixing. A sentence of the lesson «Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains, sentence 17

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Grown-ups often don't tell kids the details, and fixing it isn't a child's job.

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**Who acts:** Grown ups, fixing · **What happens:** grow, not tell, fix, not be · **To what, where:** details, kids, row, job · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains» 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 ups, fixing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains.lesson:17
# text = Grown-ups often don't tell kids the details, and fixing it isn't a child's job.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	iobj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	details	detail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
13	fixing	fix	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	csubj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
16	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | Grown ups | the details | kids |  |  | often *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent kid=Recipient detail=Topic |
| 3 | **fix** | gerund |  | row |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | present | fixing | a child's job |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains.lesson:17`.

**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): R6-punct-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/).

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