--- title: Children often hear bits of grown-up worries and imagine the worst;… — Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war… · tree and pragmatics description: Children often hear bits of grown-up worries and imagine the worst; asking a parent usually helps, and money problems are a grown-up job to sort out. Who acts: Children, asking, money problems. 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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 (Children, asking, money problems), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:008-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs.lesson:11 # text = Children often hear bits of grown-up worries and imagine the worst; asking a parent usually helps, and money problems are a grown-up job to sort out. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 008-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R4-particle ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 bits bit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=6:compound 9 worries worry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 imagine imagine VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 worst bad ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 15 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nsubj 18 usually usually ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 22 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 problems problem NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 26 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 amod _ _ 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ _ 28 up up ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=26:compound 29 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 sort sort VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 acl _ _ 32 out out ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | present | Children | bits of grown worries | | | | often *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bit=Stimulus | | 2 | **grow up** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **imagine** | present | Children *not said here* | the worst | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bad=Theme | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | a parent | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient | | 5 | **help** | present | asking | | | | | usually *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **grow up** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **is a** | present | money problems | a grown job | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **sort out** | to-infinitive | asking *not said here* | | | | | | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: 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:008-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs.lesson:11`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R4-particle ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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