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title: Young children in a temper sometimes do things they regret; what you… — Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them… · tree and pragmatics
description: Young children in a temper sometimes do things they regret; what you did at seven is judged as something a seven-year-old did. Who acts: Young children, children, you, year old. A sentence of the lesson «Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them go» of the reflection course of Mova's primary 
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# Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them go, sentence 10

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Young children in a temper sometimes do things they regret; what you did at seven is judged as something a seven-year-old did.

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**Who acts:** Young children, children, you, year old · **What happens:** do, regret, judge · **To what, where:** things, seven

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them go» 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 (Young children, children, you, year old), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:017-old-guilt-secrets-that-grow-and-how-to-let-them-go.lesson:10
# text = Young children in a temper sometimes do things they regret; what you did at seven is judged as something a seven-year-old did.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 017-old-guilt-secrets-that-grow-and-how-to-let-them-go.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	Young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	regret	regret	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	csubj:pass	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	judged	judge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	obl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
22	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	_
24	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	amod	_	_
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	_
26	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	nsubj	_	_
27	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **do** | present | Young children in a temper | things |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 2 | **regret** | present | children *= child* | things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
| 3 | **do** | past | you |  |  | seven |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 4 | **judge** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | as something | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: as something=Attribute |
| 5 | **do** | past | a year old |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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