Bad news, protests and helping others, sentence 1
Grown-ups worry about it too, and sometimes they switch it off to protect you and themselves.
Who acts: Grown ups, ups · What happens: grow, worry, switch off, protect · To what, where: news, you
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bad news, protests and helping others» 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), 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 | 4 worry | nsubj |
| 4 | worry | worry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 worry | obl |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 worry | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 switch | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 switch | cc |
| 10 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 switch | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 switch | nsubj |
| 12 | switch | switch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 worry | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 switch | obj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 switch | compound:prt |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 protect | mark |
| 16 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 switch | advcl |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 protect | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 themselves | cc |
| 19 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 you | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 worry | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | worry | present | Grown ups | about news | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | switch off | present | ups = up | news | sometimes property | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 4 | protect | to-infinitive | ups = up not said here | you | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
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:032-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others.lesson:1.
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): R7-rel-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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