--- title: The truth is that grown-ups argue about grown-up things like money,… — Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not yo… · tree and pragmatics description: The truth is that grown-ups argue about grown-up things like money, tiredness and work; a child does not cause it and a perfect child cannot stop it, so that heavy job was never hers to carry. Who acts: truth, grown ups, child, perfect child. 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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 (truth, grown ups, child, perfect child), 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:3 # text = The truth is that grown-ups argue about grown-up things like money, tiredness and work; a child does not cause it and a perfect child cannot stop it, so that heavy job was never hers to carry. # 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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 5 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 9 about about ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 amod _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 12 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=10:compound 13 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 14 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 tiredness tiredness NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 23 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 cause cause VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 perfect perfect ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 31 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 36 so so SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 37 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 39 det _ _ 38 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 40 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 41 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 42 hers her PRON PRP Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 parataxis _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | present | the truth | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | grown ups | | | | | about grown things like money and tiredness and work | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about thing=Topic | | 4 | **grow up** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **not** **cause** | present · do-support | a child | truth | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition it=Patient | | 6 | **not** **stop** | can | a perfect child | truth | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality | | 7 | **not** **is a** | past | that heavy job | Maisie | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **carry** | to-infinitive | Maisie | | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:reflection:012-parents-shouting-parents-splitting-it-s-not-your-fault.lesson:3`. **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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×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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