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title: Big problems like wars are not a child's responsibility; kids can he… — Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about polit… · tree and pragmatics
description: Big problems like wars are not a child's responsibility; kids can help in small ways, like being kind, learning or giving to a charity with a grown-up. Who acts: Big problems, kids. A sentence of the lesson «Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics» of the politics course of Mova's primar
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# Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics, sentence 17

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Big problems like wars are not a child's responsibility; kids can help in small ways, like being kind, learning or giving to a charity with a grown-up.

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**Who acts:** Big problems, kids · **What happens:** not be, help, be, learn, give · **To what, where:** responsibility, small ways, charity

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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 (Big problems, kids), 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:17
# text = Big problems like wars are not a child's responsibility; kids can help in small ways, like being kind, learning or giving to a charity with a grown-up.
# 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 ×1
1	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	problems	problem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det
8	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	responsibility	responsibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	cop	_	_
21	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	charity	charity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:det
31	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	_	28	nmod	_	_
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	_
33	up	up	ADP	RP	_	31	compound	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **not** **is a** | present | Big problems like wars | a child's responsibility |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **help** | can | kids |  |  | small ways |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | gerund | kids *not said here* |  |  |  |  | kind *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **learn** | gerund | kids *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **give** | gerund | kids *not said here* |  | a charity with grown |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to charity=Recipient |

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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 ×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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