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title: When things go wrong between grown-ups at home, children very often… — Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not yo… · tree and pragmatics
description: When things go wrong between grown-ups at home, children very often decide, quietly, in bed, that it must be because of them, and that if they are good enough they can fix it. Who acts: things, children, bed. A sentence of the lesson «Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not your fault» of the 
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# Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not your fault, sentence 0

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When things go wrong between grown-ups at home, children very often decide, quietly, in bed, that it must be because of them, and that if they are good enough they can fix it.

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**Who acts:** things, children, bed · **What happens:** go, grow, decide, be, fix · **To what, where:** grown ups, bed · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not your fault» of the reflection 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 (things, children, bed), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:012-parents-shouting-parents-splitting-it-s-not-your-fault.lesson:0
# text = When things go wrong between grown-ups at home, children very often decide, quietly, in bed, that it must be because of them, and that if they are good enough they can fix it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 012-parents-shouting-parents-splitting-it-s-not-your-fault.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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
5	between	between	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
8	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	often	often	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	decide	decide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
24	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
26	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	28	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:case
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	ccomp	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=28:punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:mark
32	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	advcl	_	_
36	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3: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 | **go** | present | things |  |  | grown ups at home |  | wrong *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between up=Location |
| 2 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **decide** | present | children |  |  | bed |  | often, quietly *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | must | bed |  |  |  |  | because things *= thing* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | enough, good *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **fix** | can | children *= child* | bed |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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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**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:reflection:012-parents-shouting-parents-splitting-it-s-not-your-fault.lesson:0`.

**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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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/).

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