--- title: Grown-ups can do things a child can't, like talking to a school, oth… — Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that… · tree and pragmatics description: Grown-ups can do things a child can't, like talking to a school, other parents or the police, so a threat should be told to a trusted adult the same day. Who acts: Grown ups. 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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 (Grown ups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:007-chased-trapped-frightened-scary-moments-that-come-back-at-night.lesson:7 # text = Grown-ups can do things a child can't, like talking to a school, other parents or the police, so a threat should be told to a trusted adult the same day. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 007-chased-trapped-frightened-scary-moments-that-come-back-at-night.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 like like SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:appos 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 police police NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 threat threat NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 33 amod _ _ 33 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl:unmarked _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **do** | can | Grown ups | things | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 3 | **talk** | gerund | Grown ups *not said here* | | | | | to a school and other parents or the police | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to school=Co-Agent | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | should · passive | | a threat | a trusted adult | | day | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to adult=Recipient | | 5 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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:007-chased-trapped-frightened-scary-moments-that-come-back-at-night.lesson:7`. **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): 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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