--- title: When grown-ups are stressed about money they may be snappy, but they… — When money is tight: "we can't afford it" · tree and pragmatics description: When grown-ups are stressed about money they may be snappy, but they still love their children; talking to a trusted adult helps a worried child. Who acts: ups, talking. 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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 (ups, talking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:money:023-when-money-is-tight.lesson:17 # text = When grown-ups are stressed about money they may be snappy, but they still love their children; talking to a trusted adult helps a worried child. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = money # lesson = 023-when-money-is-tight.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 6 mark _ _ 2 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 stressed stress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 advcl _ _ 7 about about ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 cop _ _ 12 snappy snappy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 still still ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:parataxis 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 21 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 csubj _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 amod _ _ 25 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 worried worried ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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 | **stress** | present · passive | | grown ups | | | | about money | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | | 3 | **is** | may | ups *= up* | | | | | snappy *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **love** | present | ups *= up* | ups's children | | | still | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | | 5 | **talk** | gerund | | | | | | to a trusted adult | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to adult=Co-Agent | | 6 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **help** | present | talking | | a worried child | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary | 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:money:023-when-money-is-tight.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): 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: [When money is tight: "we can't afford…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/23-when-money-is-tight/16/) - next →: [Debt, loans, credit cards and interest, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/24-debt-loans-credit-cards-and-interest/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/23-when-money-is-tight/)