Sore backs, glasses and feeling low, sentence 10
To help someone with poor hearing, face them and speak clearly, without shouting.
Who acts: you · What happens: help, face, speak, shout · To what, where: someone, sounds · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sore backs, glasses and feeling low» 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 (you), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 help | mark |
| 2 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 face | advcl |
| 3 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 help | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 hearing | case |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hearing | amod |
| 6 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 someone | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 face | punct |
| 8 | face | face | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 face | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 speak | cc |
| 11 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 face | conj |
| 12 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 11 speak | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shouting | punct |
| 14 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 15 shouting | mark |
| 15 | shouting | shout | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 speak | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 face | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | to-infinitive | you not said here | someone | with poor hearing | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent someone=Beneficiary with hearing=Theme | |||
| 2 | face | imperative | you not said here | sounds = sound | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Destination | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | infinitive | you not said here | clearly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | shout speech: express | gerund | you not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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:022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.lesson:10.
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 ×2, R6-punct-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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