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description: Grown-ups feel sad when they see people suffering, even far away; this is empathy, and it is all right to ask what made them sad. Who acts: Grown ups, ups, people, this. A sentence of the lesson «Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics» of the politics course of Mova's primary school wit
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# Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics, sentence 11

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Grown-ups feel sad when they see people suffering, even far away; this is empathy, and it is all right to ask what made them sad.

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**Who acts:** Grown ups, ups, people, this · **What happens:** grow, feel, see, suffer, be, ask · **To what, where:** people, empathy, ups · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics» of the politics 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, ups, people, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:014-dad-shouting-at-the-tv-big-feelings-about-politics.lesson:11
# text = Grown-ups feel sad when they see people suffering, even far away; this is empathy, and it is all right to ask what made them sad.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 014-dad-shouting-at-the-tv-big-feelings-about-politics.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 ×2
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	4	nsubj	_	_
4	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	suffering	suffer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	empathy	empathy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	expl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	all	all	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:advcl
27	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	28	nsubj	_	_
28	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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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 | **feel** | present | Grown ups |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **see** | present | ups *= up* | people |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus |
| 4 | **suffer** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is a** | present | this | empathy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | present | Grown ups *not said here* |  |  |  |  | all, right *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **make** | past |  | ups *= up* |  |  |  | sad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product |

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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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**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 ×2. **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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