--- title: Grown-ups' rules are passed on like recipes: some were true once, so… — Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules · tree and pragmatics description: Grown-ups' rules are passed on like recipes: some were true once, some are half true, and some were never true but sounded sensible. Who acts: some, Grown ups. A sentence of the lesson «Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/27-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules/3/) [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/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/27-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules/) / 3 # Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules, sentence 3 Grown-ups' rules are passed on like recipes: some were true once, some are half true, and some were never true but sounded sensible. **Who acts:** some, Grown ups · **What happens:** pass on, be, not be, sound, rule · **To what, where:** rules This is a sentence of the lesson «Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules» of the myths 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 (some, Grown ups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:027-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules.lesson:3 # text = Grown-ups' rules are passed on like recipes: some were true once, some are half true, and some were never true but sounded sensible. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 027-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules.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, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Grown grow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 3 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 ' 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 on on ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 like like ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 recipes recipe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 14 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 13 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 parataxis _ _ 15 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 14 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 20 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 half half ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 20 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 20 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 26 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 24 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 parataxis _ _ 27 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 sounded sound VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 29 sensible sensible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass on** | present · passive | | Grown ups's rules | | | | like recipes | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | some | | | | | once, true *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | some | | | | | half, true *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **is** | past | some | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **sound** | past | | | | | | sensible *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **rule** | | Grown ups | | | | | | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:myths:027-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules.lesson:3`. **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, R8-pos-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/27-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules/2/) - next →: [Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/27-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/27-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules/)