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title: Parents argue about grown-up things like money, tiredness and work;… — Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not yo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Parents argue about grown-up things like money, tiredness and work; it is never caused by the child, and a child being perfect cannot stop it. Who acts: Parents, child. A sentence of the lesson «Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not your fault» of the reflection course of Mova's primary scho
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# Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not your fault, sentence 6

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Parents argue about grown-up things like money, tiredness and work; it is never caused by the child, and a child being perfect cannot stop it.

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**Who acts:** Parents, child · **What happens:** argue, grow up, not cause, be, not stop · **To what, where:** parent

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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 (Parents, 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:6
# text = Parents argue about grown-up things like money, tiredness and work; it is never caused by the child, and a child being perfect cannot stop 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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	argue	argue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=4:compound
7	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	tiredness	tiredness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:appos
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
26	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	cop	_	_
27	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	acl	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | Parents |  |  |  |  | about grown things like money and tiredness and work | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about thing=Topic |
| 2 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **cause** | present · passive | the child | parent |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | gerund | a child *not said here* |  |  |  |  | perfect *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **stop** | can | a child | parent |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality |

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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:6`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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