--- title: Many children try to fix the mood at home by being the clown, the ca… — Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, m… · tree and pragmatics description: Many children try to fix the mood at home by being the clown, the carer or the perfect one, but that is not a child's job; telling another trusted adult, like an aunt or a teacher, is how help usually starts. Who acts: Many children, that, help. 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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 (Many children, that, help), 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:5 # text = Many children try to fix the mood at home by being the clown, the carer or the perfect one, but that is not a child's job; telling another trusted adult, like an aunt or a teacher, is how help usually starts. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 try try VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 fix fix VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 mood mood NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 by by SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 11 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 cop _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 clown clown NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 carer carer NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:appos 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 perfect perfect ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 23 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:det 27 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 's 's PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 29 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 47 csubj _ _ 32 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 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 , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 like like ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 aunt aunt NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 39 or or CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 43 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 cop _ _ 44 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 47 advmod _ _ 45 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 46 usually usually ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 47 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 48 . . 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 | **try** | present | Many children | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **fix** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Many children *not said here* | the mood | | home | | | vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent mood=Theme at home=Value | | 3 | **is a** | gerund | | the clown and the carer or the perfect one | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **is a** | present | that | a child's job | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | another trusted adult | | | like a aunt or a teacher | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 6 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | present | help | | | | | start, usually *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:5`. **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): R5-strong ×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. 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