When grown-ups are tired or worried, sentence 7

Some worry is quieter: a tight, careful voice on the phone to the bank, a phone checked again and again, red eyes and «I'm fine, honestly».

Who acts: worry, Dad · What happens: be, check · To what, where: phone

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 (worry, Dad), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 worry	det
2	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 quieter	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 quieter	cop
4	quieter	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 quieter	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 voice	det
7	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 voice	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tight	punct
9	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 voice	amod
10	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 worry	appos
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 phone	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 phone	det
13	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 voice	nmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 bank	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bank	det
16	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 phone	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 phone	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 phone	det
19	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 worry	conj
20	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 phone	acl
21	again	again	ADV	_	20 checked	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 again	cc
23	again	again	ADV	_	21 again	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 eyes	punct
25	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 eyes	amod
26	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 worry	parataxis
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fine	cc
28	«	«	PUNCT	_	31 fine	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 fine	nsubj
30	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 fine	cop
31	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 eyes	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fine	punct
33	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	31 fine	advmod
34	»	»	PUNCT	_	31 fine	punct
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 quieter	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	some worry and a phone			quiet property	tree rules
2	check	participle		a phone not said here	again		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	Dad			fine, honestly property	tree rules

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:7.

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 ×3. 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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