--- title: Asking a grown-up to explain the news makes it less confusing; grown… — Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about polit… · tree and pragmatics description: Asking a grown-up to explain the news makes it less confusing; grown-ups' feelings usually come from their values, like fairness or safety. Who acts: Asking, feelings. 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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 (Asking, feelings), 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:18 # text = Asking a grown-up to explain the news makes it less confusing; grown-ups' feelings usually come from their values, like fairness or safety. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 grown grown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 5 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 explain explain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nsubj 10 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 13 advmod _ _ 13 confusing confusing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=10:punct 15 grown grown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ _ 17 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 ' 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 feelings feeling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 20 usually usually ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 22 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 values value NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 like like ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 fairness fairness NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obl 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | a grown up | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient | | 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | the news | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Topic | | 3 | **make** | present | Asking | news | | | | confusing *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 4 | **come** | present | grown ups's feelings | | | feelings's values like fairness or safety | | usually *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from value=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **value** | | feelings *= feeling* | | | | | like fairness or safety | nom value «cognition transitive»: poss=agent like=obl | 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:politics:014-dad-shouting-at-the-tv-big-feelings-about-politics.lesson:18`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, 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. 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