When grown-ups are tired or worried, sentence 6

A grumpy hello at the door means the work day is still hanging on, and «I need five minutes» means a grown-up is calming down instead of snapping.

Who acts: grumpy hello, work day, Dad, grown up · What happens: mean, hang on, need, calm down, snap · 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 (grumpy hello, work day, Dad, grown up), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hello	det
2	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hello	amod
3	hello	hello	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	nsubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 door	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hello	nmod
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 day	det
9	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 day	compound
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hanging	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 hanging	aux
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 hanging	advmod
13	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 means	ccomp
14	on	on	ADP	_	13 hanging	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 need	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 need	cc
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 need	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 need	nsubj
19	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 hanging	conj
20	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 minutes	nummod
21	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 need	obj
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 need	punct
23	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 means	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 up	det
25	grown	grow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 up	amod
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 grown	punct
27	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 calming	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 calming	aux
29	calming	calm	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 means	ccomp
30	down	down	ADP	_	29 calming	compound:prt
31	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	33 snapping	mark
32	of	of	ADP	_	31 instead	fixed
33	snapping	snap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 calming	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	mean	present	a grumpy hello at the door		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hang on	present · progressive	the work day	still	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	need in a quote	present	Dad	minute	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	mean	present	a grumpy hello at the door not said here		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	calm down	present · progressive	a grown up		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	snap	gerund	a grown up not said here		vn sound_emission-43.2 «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:034-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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