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description: Drinking too much alcohol can change how a person acts; if a child feels scared at home because of it, it is not his fault and he should tell a trusted adult. Who acts: Drinking, person, child, calendar. A sentence of the lesson «Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not your fault» of the refle
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# Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not your fault, sentence 11

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Drinking too much alcohol can change how a person acts; if a child feels scared at home because of it, it is not his fault and he should tell a trusted adult.

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**Who acts:** Drinking, person, child, calendar · **What happens:** drink, change, act, feel, not be, tell · **To what, where:** much alcohol, home, fault, trusted adult · **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 (Drinking, person, child, calendar), 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:11
# text = Drinking too much alcohol can change how a person acts; if a child feels scared at home because of it, it is not his fault and he should tell a trusted adult.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:compound
10	acts	act	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
16	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	21	case	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	amod	_	_
34	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **drink** | gerund |  | much alcohol |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcohol=Patient |
| 2 | **change** | can | Drinking |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **act** |  | a person |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **feel** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a child |  |  | home |  | because home; scared *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **not** **is a** | present | person | calendar's fault |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | should | calendar |  | a trusted adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 7 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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:11`.

**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. **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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