When grown-ups are tired or worried, sentence 13

«I need five minutes» is a grown-up's way of calming down instead of snapping, and afterwards they are usually kinder.

Who acts: Dad, way, ups · What happens: need, grow, be, calm down, snap · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «When grown-ups are tired or worried» 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 (Dad, way, ups), 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	_	3 need	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 need	nsubj
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 way	csubj
4	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 minutes	nummod
5	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	obj
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 need	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 way	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 up	det
9	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 up	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 grown	punct
11	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 way	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 up	case
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	of	of	SCONJ	_	15 calming	mark
15	calming	calm	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 way	acl
16	down	down	ADP	_	15 calming	compound:prt
17	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	19 snapping	mark
18	of	of	ADP	_	17 instead	fixed
19	snapping	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 calming	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 kinder	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 kinder	cc
22	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	26 kinder	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 kinder	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 kinder	cop
25	usually	usually	ADV	_	26 kinder	advmod
26	kinder	kind	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 way	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 way	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	need in a quote	present	Dad		minute		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present		a grown up's way			tree rules
4	calm down	gerund	a grown up's way not said here				vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	snap	gerund	a grown up's way not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	present	ups = up			afterwards, kind, usually property	tree rules

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:034-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried.lesson:13.

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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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