Grown-ups who argue and make up, sentence 6

"Not in front of the children" means the grown-ups need to talk about something serious and want to protect you from worry, not that you did something wrong.

Who acts: grown ups, you · What happens: mean, grow, need, talk, want, protect · To what, where: front, you, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Grown-ups who argue and make up» of the adult life 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 (grown ups, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 front	punct
2	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 front	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 front	case
4	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 means	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 children	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 children	det
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 front	nmod
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 front	punct
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ups	det
11	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 ups	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 grown	punct
13	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 need	nsubj
14	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 means	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 talk	mark
16	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 need	xcomp
17	about	about	ADP	_	18 something	case
18	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 talk	obl
19	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 something	amod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 want	cc
21	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 need	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 protect	mark
23	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 want	xcomp
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 protect	obj
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 worry	case
26	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 protect	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 did	punct
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 did	advmod
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 did	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 did	nsubj
31	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 means	conj
32	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	31 did	obj
33	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 something	amod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present				front of the children		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	grow	participle						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	need	present	the grown ups					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	talk not said to happen	to-infinitive	the grown ups not said here				about something	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about something=Topic
5	want	present	the grown ups not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	protect not said to happen	to-infinitive	the grown ups not said here		you		from worry	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary from worry=Theme
7	not do	past	you	something				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality

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, 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:adult-life:014-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up.lesson:6.

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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