Being a good grown-up, sentence 7

Grown-ups must sometimes say no, or they do too much and get exhausted; a kind, clear no is better than a yes that never gets done.

Who acts: Grown ups, kind clear no · What happens: grow, say, get, exhaust, be, not do · To what, where: much, yes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Being a good grown-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, kind clear no), 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	Grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ups	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Grown	punct
3	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 say	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 say	advmod
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 say	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 much	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 much	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 do	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 much	aux
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 much	advmod
13	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 say	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 get	cc
15	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 much	conj
16	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 get	xcomp
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 kind	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 no	det
19	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 no	amod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 better	punct
21	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 no	amod
22	no	no	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 better	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 better	cop
24	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 say	parataxis
25	than	than	ADP	_	27 yes	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 yes	det
27	yes	yes	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 better	obl
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 done	nsubj
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 done	advmod
30	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 done	aux:pass
31	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 yes	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	must	Grown ups	much	sometimes property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent much=Topic
3	get	infinitive	Grown ups not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	exhaust	participle	Grown ups not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	present	a kind clear no		than a yes; good property	tree rules
6	not do	present · passive		a yes		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:040-being-a-good-grown-up.lesson:7.

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 ×5. 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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