Grown-ups who argue and make up, sentence 13

"Going to see someone to help us talk" means visiting a counsellor, a trained person who helps couples understand each other, which is a sensible, hopeful step.

Who acts: us, Going, trained person, couples · What happens: go, see, help, talk, mean, visit · To what, where: someone, us, counsellor, each, sensible hopeful step · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Grown-ups who argue and make 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 (us, Going, trained person, couples), 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	_	2 Going	punct
2	Going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 means	csubj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 see	mark
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Going	xcomp
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 see	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 help	mark
7	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 someone	acl
8	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 help	obj
9	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 help	xcomp
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Going	punct
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	visiting	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 means	obj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 counsellor	det
14	counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 visiting	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 counsellor	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 person	det
17	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 person	amod
18	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 counsellor	appos
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 helps	nsubj
20	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 person	acl:relcl
21	couples	couple	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 understand	nsubj
22	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 helps	xcomp
23	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	22 understand	obj
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 each	fixed
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 step	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 step	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 step	cop
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 step	det
29	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 step	amod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sensible	punct
31	hopeful	hopeful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 step	amod
32	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 person	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	go in a quote	gerund			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see in a quote	to-infinitive		someone	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus
3	help in a quote	to-infinitive		us	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary clause=Theme
4	talk in a quote	infinitive	us not said here		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	mean	present	Going		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
6	visit	gerund		a counsellor	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsellor=Co-Agent
7	train	participle			vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	help	present	a trained person and a sensible hopeful step		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
9	understand	infinitive	couples	each	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus
10	is a	present	a trained person and a sensible hopeful step	a sensible hopeful step	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:014-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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