--- title: Parents are people too: they argue sometimes, get ill, sad or very t… — A new baby, looking after siblings and living wi… · tree and pragmatics description: Parents are people too: they argue sometimes, get ill, sad or very tired, and work long hours; children never cause grown-ups' arguments, and they can help a little, but they should not have to look after a parent alone. Who acts: Parents, children. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Parents, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:095-babies-siblings-and-parents.lesson:2 # text = Parents are people too: they argue sometimes, get ill, sad or very tired, and work long hours; children never cause grown-ups' arguments, and they can help a little, but they should not have to look after a parent alone. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 095-babies-siblings-and-parents.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 too too ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 8 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 7 advmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 10 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 11 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 very very ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 20 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 21 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 23 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 24 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 cause cause VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 26 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:amod 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ _ 28 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 compound _ _ 29 ' 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 arguments argument NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 parataxis _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 obj _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 39 but but CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 40 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 41 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 43 advmod _ _ 43 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 xcomp _ _ 46 after after ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 49 alone alone ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Parents | people | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | children *= child* | | | | | sometimes *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **get** | present | children *= child* *not said here* | | | | | ill *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **work** | present | children *= child* *not said here* | | | | hour | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **cause** | present | children | ups arguments | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition argument=Patient | | 6 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **help** | can | children *= child* | a little | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Beneficiary | | 8 | **not** **have** | should | children *= child* | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **look** | to-infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | | | | after a parent | alone *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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:095-babies-siblings-and-parents.lesson:2`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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