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title: Grown-ups can have long histories and old hurts with each other ("ol… — When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Grown-ups can have long histories and old hurts with each other ("old wounds"); children do not need to fix them. Who acts: Grown ups, children. 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 de
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# When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babies and big changes, sentence 15

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Grown-ups can have long histories and old hurts with each other ("old wounds"); children do not need to fix them.

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**Who acts:** Grown ups, children · **What happens:** have, not need, fix · **To what, where:** long histories, ups

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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 (Grown ups, children), 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:15
# text = Grown-ups can have long histories and old hurts with each other ("old wounds"); children do not need to fix them.
# 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	Grown	grown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
3	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	histories	history	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	hurts	hurt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	nmod	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	fixed	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
22	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **have** | can | Grown ups | long histories and old hurts with each and old wounds |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **need** | present · do-support | children |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **fix** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | children *not said here* | ups *= up* |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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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**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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