--- title: Not knowing what will happen, for example about a job or a move, is… — When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babi… · tree and pragmatics description: Not knowing what will happen, for example about a job or a move, is hard; talking about it as a family helps more than guessing the worst. Who acts: knowing. 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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 (knowing), 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:14 # text = Not knowing what will happen, for example about a job or a move, is hard; talking about it as a family helps more than guessing the worst. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 2 knowing know VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 csubj _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 nsubj _ _ 4 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 about about ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 move move NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 20 about about ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ _ 22 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nsubj 25 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 26 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 25 advmod _ _ 27 than than SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 28 guessing guess VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 advcl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 worst bad ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 28 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 17 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** **know** | gerund | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **happen** | future | | | | | | for example; about a job or a move | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about job=Location | | 3 | **is** | present | knowing | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **talk** | gerund | knowing *not said here* | a family | | | | about move | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | | 5 | **help** | present | knowing *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **guess** | gerund | knowing *not said here* | the worst | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bad=Theme | 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:014-when-home-feels-shaky-rows-hospitals-new-babies-and-big-changes.lesson:14`. **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 ×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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