When grown-ups are tired or worried, sentence 19
Adults sometimes switch off heavy news to take a break from it, because too much bad news makes anyone gloomy.
Who acts: Adults, much bad news · What happens: switch off, take, make · To what, where: heavy news, break, news, anyone
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 (Adults, much bad 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 | Adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 switch | nsubj |
| 2 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | _ | 3 switch | advmod |
| 3 | switch | switch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 switch | compound:prt |
| 5 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 news | amod |
| 6 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 switch | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 take | mark |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 switch | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 break | det |
| 10 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 take | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 makes | punct |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 makes | mark |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 news | amod |
| 17 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 news | amod |
| 18 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 makes | nsubj |
| 19 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 switch | advcl |
| 20 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 makes | obj |
| 21 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 makes | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | 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 | present | Adults | heavy news | sometimes property | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Patient | |||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | Adults not said here | a break | news | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent break=Theme from it=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | make | present | much bad news | anyone | gloomy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset anyone=Product |
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:19.
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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