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description: Parents may argue about how to help a child, for example after a bad school report, but the argument is not the child's fault. Who acts: Parents, argument. A sentence of the lesson «Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness, sentence 12

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Parents may argue about how to help a child, for example after a bad school report, but the argument is not the child's fault.

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**Who acts:** Parents, argument · **What happens:** argue, help, not be · **To what, where:** child, fault · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Parents, argument), 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:12
# text = Parents may argue about how to help a child, for example after a bad school report, but the argument is not the child's fault.
# 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): no change
1	Parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	argue	argue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	after	after	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	argument	argument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | may | Parents |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **help** | to-infinitive |  |  | a child |  |  | for example after a bad school report | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present | the argument | the child's fault |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:013-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness.lesson:12`.

**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): no change. **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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