Grown-ups who argue and make up, sentence 8
The silent treatment usually makes things worse, and children should not have to carry messages between upset grown-ups.
Who acts: silent treatment, children · What happens: make, not have, carry, grow · To what, where: things, messages
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 (silent treatment, children), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 treatment | det |
| 2 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 treatment | amod |
| 3 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 makes | nsubj |
| 4 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 5 makes | advmod |
| 5 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 makes | obj |
| 7 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 makes | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 have | cc |
| 10 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 have | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 have | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 have | advmod |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 makes | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 carry | mark |
| 15 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 have | xcomp |
| 16 | messages | message | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 carry | obj |
| 17 | between | between | ADP | _ | 21 ups | case |
| 18 | upset | upset | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ups | amod |
| 19 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 ups | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 grown | punct |
| 21 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 messages | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | the silent treatment | things | bad, usually property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product | |||
| 2 | not have | should | children | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | carry | to-infinitive | children not said here | messages | between upset grown ups | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme | |||
| 4 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:8.
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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