Bad news, protests and helping others, sentence 10
Parents may switch off the news to protect children from scary pictures, and they worry about it themselves.
Who acts: Parents · What happens: switch off, protect, worry · To what, where: news, children, Parents
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 (Parents), 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 | Parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 switch | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 switch | aux |
| 3 | switch | switch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 switch | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 news | det |
| 6 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 switch | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 protect | mark |
| 8 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 switch | advcl |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 protect | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 pictures | case |
| 11 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pictures | amod |
| 12 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 protect | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 worry | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 worry | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 worry | nsubj |
| 16 | worry | worry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 switch | conj |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 worry | obl |
| 19 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 worry | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 switch | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | switch off | may | Parents | the news | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Patient | ||||
| 2 | protect | to-infinitive | Parents not said here | children | from scary pictures | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary from picture=Theme | |||
| 3 | worry | present | Parents = parent | Parents = parent | about news | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus |
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: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, 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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