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title: If home ever feels scary, like a parent throwing things in a temper,… — When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babi… · tree and pragmatics
description: If home ever feels scary, like a parent throwing things in a temper, tell a trusted adult; it is not telling tales, it is how families get help. Who acts: home, parent, you. A sentence of the lesson «When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babies and big changes» of the reflection course of Mova
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# When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babies and big changes, sentence 6

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If home ever feels scary, like a parent throwing things in a temper, tell a trusted adult; it is not telling tales, it is how families get help.

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**Who acts:** home, parent, you · **What happens:** feel, throw, tell, trust, not tell, be · **To what, where:** things, temper, trusted adult, tales · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (home, parent, you), 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:6
# text = If home ever feels scary, like a parent throwing things in a temper, tell a trusted adult; it is not telling tales, it is how families get help.
# 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 ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod
4	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
5	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
16	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	ccomp	_	_
25	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
30	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
32	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **feel** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | home |  |  |  | ever | scary *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **throw** | gerund | a parent | things |  | a temper |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent thing=Theme in temper=Destination |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | a trusted adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | Home | tales |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient |
| 6 | **is** | present | Home |  |  |  |  | get *property* | 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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**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. **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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