--- title: Some hard things at home are not one big bang but a slow drip: a dad… — Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, m… · tree and pragmatics description: Some hard things at home are not one big bang but a slow drip: a dad who keeps not turning up, a dinner table nobody talks at, a fridge that is empty by Thursday, a mum always on her phone. Who acts: hard things, dad, nobody, fridge. A sentence of the lesson «Hard things at home: broken promises, si --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/13-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / [Hard things at home: broken promises,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/13-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness/) / 0 # Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness, sentence 0 Some hard things at home are not one big bang but a slow drip: a dad who keeps not turning up, a dinner table nobody talks at, a fridge that is empty by Thursday, a mum always on her phone. **Who acts:** hard things, dad, nobody, fridge · **What happens:** not be, keep, not turn up, talk, be · **To what, where:** one big bang, dinner table This is a sentence of the lesson «Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness» 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 (hard things, dad, nobody, fridge), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:013-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness.lesson:0 # text = Some hard things at home are not one big bang but a slow drip: a dad who keeps not turning up, a dinner table nobody talks at, a fridge that is empty by Thursday, a mum always on her phone. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 013-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 2 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 9 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 bang bang NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 drip drip NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 18 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 turning turn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 xcomp _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 27 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 28 nsubj _ _ 28 talks talk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 fridge fridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 33 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 acl:relcl _ _ 36 by by ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 Thursday Thursday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 41 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 40 advmod _ _ 42 on on ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 45 . . 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 | **not** **is a** | present | some hard things at home | one big bang but a slow drip | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **keep** | present | a dad | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **turn up** | gerund | a dad *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **talk** | present | nobody | a dinner table *not said here* | | | | | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent table=Patient | | 5 | **is** | present | a fridge | | | | thursday | empty *property* | tree rules | 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:013-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness.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): R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [Parents shouting, parents splitting: i…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/12-parents-shouting-parents-splitting-it-s-not-your-fault/17/) - next →: [Hard things at home: broken promises,…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/13-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/13-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness/)