The parents walk in: how good parents react, sentence 18

When grown-ups talk quietly about what happened and say your name, they are usually working out how to help, not plotting a punishment.

Who acts: grown ups, ups, your · What happens: talk, happen, say, work out, help, not plot · To what, where: name, punishment · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The parents walk in: how good parents react» 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, ups, your), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 talk	advmod
2	grown	grow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ups	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 grown	punct
4	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 talk	nsubj
5	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 working	advcl
6	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	5 talk	advmod
7	about	about	SCONJ	_	9 happened	mark
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 happened	nsubj
9	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 talk	ccomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 say	cc
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 happened	conj
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 name	nmod:poss
13	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 say	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 working	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 working	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 working	aux
17	usually	usually	ADV	_	18 working	advmod
18	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 working	compound:prt
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 help	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 help	mark
22	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 working	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 plotting	punct
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 plotting	advmod
25	plotting	plot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 working	advcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 punishment	det
27	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 plotting	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 working	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	talk	present	grown ups		quietly property	tree rules
2	happen	past				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	infinitive		your name		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic
4	work out	present · progressive	ups = up		usually property	vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	help	to-infinitive	ups = up not said here			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	not plot	gerund	ups = up not said here	a punishment		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent punishment=Theme
7	name		your			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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:059-the-parents-walk-in-how-good-parents-react.lesson:18.

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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