Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★, sentence 15

A closed door and low voices usually mean grown-up business, such as a worry, a plan or a surprise, and it is usually not about the child.

Who acts: closed door, worry · What happens: close, mean, grow up, not be · To what, where: grown business

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★» 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 (closed door, worry), 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 door	det
2	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 door	amod
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mean	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 voices	cc
5	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 voices	amod
6	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 door	conj
7	usually	usually	ADV	_	8 mean	advmod
8	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 business	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 up	punct
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 grown	compound:prt
12	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mean	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 worry	punct
14	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	17 worry	case
15	as	as	ADP	_	14 such	fixed
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 worry	det
17	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 business	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 plan	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 plan	det
20	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 worry	conj
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 surprise	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 surprise	det
23	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 plan	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 child	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 child	cc
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 child	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 child	cop
28	usually	usually	ADV	_	32 child	advmod
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 child	advmod
30	about	about	ADP	_	32 child	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 child	det
32	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mean	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 mean	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	close	participle				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	mean	present	a closed door and low voices	grown business	such a worry and a plan or a surprise; usually property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Topic
3	grow up	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not is	present	worry		about the child; 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.

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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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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