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title: Parents can disagree about rules, like when a child gets a phone, wi… — When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Parents can disagree about rules, like when a child gets a phone, without it being a sign of a big problem. Who acts: Parents, child, phone. A sentence of the lesson «When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babies and big changes» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babies and big changes, sentence 13

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Parents can disagree about rules, like when a child gets a phone, without it being a sign of a big problem.

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**Who acts:** Parents, child, phone · **What happens:** disagree, get, be · **To what, where:** phone, sign

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babies and big changes» 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, phone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:014-when-home-feels-shaky-rows-hospitals-new-babies-and-big-changes.lesson:13
# text = Parents can disagree about rules, like when a child gets a phone, without it being a sign of a big problem.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 014-when-home-feels-shaky-rows-hospitals-new-babies-and-big-changes.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	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	disagree	disagree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **disagree** | can | Parents |  |  |  |  | about rules | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about rule=Topic |
| 2 | **get** | present | a child | a phone |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer phone=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | gerund | phone | a sign |  |  |  | of a big problem | 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:014-when-home-feels-shaky-rows-hospitals-new-babies-and-big-changes.lesson:13`.

**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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