When grown-ups are tired or worried, sentence 17
A worried mind keeps going back to the same thing, so worried adults can be distracted until the news comes.
Who acts: worried mind, news · What happens: keep, go back, distract, come · To what, where: worried adults
This is a sentence of the lesson «When grown-ups are tired or worried» 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 (worried mind, news), 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 mind | det |
| 2 | worried | worried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mind | amod |
| 3 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keeps | nsubj |
| 4 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 keeps | xcomp |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 going | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 thing | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 thing | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thing | amod |
| 10 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 back | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 distracted | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 distracted | advmod |
| 13 | worried | worried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 adults | amod |
| 14 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 distracted | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 distracted | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 distracted | aux:pass |
| 17 | distracted | distract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 keeps | parataxis |
| 18 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 21 comes | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 news | det |
| 20 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 comes | nsubj |
| 21 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 distracted | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | a worried mind | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go back | gerund | a worried mind not said here | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | distract | can · passive | worried adults | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | come | present | the news | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:034-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried.lesson:17.
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 ×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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