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title: Holidays can be stressful for grown-ups, with money, cooking and fam… — When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Holidays can be stressful for grown-ups, with money, cooking and family all at once, and one bad moment does not ruin every Christmas; a walk and hot chocolate on Boxing Day made a new happy memory, and the next December went fine. Who acts: Holidays, one bad moment, walk, next December. A sentence 
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# When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babies and big changes, sentence 4

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Holidays can be stressful for grown-ups, with money, cooking and family all at once, and one bad moment does not ruin every Christmas; a walk and hot chocolate on Boxing Day made a new happy memory, and the next December went fine.

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**Who acts:** Holidays, one bad moment, walk, next December · **What happens:** be, grow, not ruin, make, go · **To what, where:** Christmas, new happy memory

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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 (Holidays, one bad moment, walk, next December), 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:4
# text = Holidays can be stressful for grown-ups, with money, cooking and family all at once, and one bad moment does not ruin every Christmas; a walk and hot chocolate on Boxing Day made a new happy memory, and the next December went fine.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Holidays	holiday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	stressful	stressful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	cooking	cooking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	all	all	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	13	advmod	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	13	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	ruin	ruin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
27	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	Boxing	box	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
38	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
40	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
41	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
48	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
49	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	xcomp	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | can | Holidays |  |  |  |  | for grown ups with money and cooking and family; stressful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **ruin** | present · do-support | one bad moment | every Christmas |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent christmas=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | past | a walk and hot chocolate | a new happy memory |  |  | on Boxing Day |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset memory=Product |
| 5 | **go** | past | the next December |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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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