When grown-ups are tired or worried, sentence 9
A few quiet minutes, a hug, or a simple «Are you OK?» often help most.
Who acts: you, few quiet minutes · What happens: be, help
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 (you, few quiet minutes), 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 | 4 minutes | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 minutes | amod |
| 3 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 minutes | amod |
| 4 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 help | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hug | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hug | det |
| 7 | hug | hug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 minutes | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 « | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 minutes | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 « | det |
| 11 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 « | amod |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 OK | punct |
| 13 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 OK | cop |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 OK | nsubj |
| 15 | OK | ok | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 minutes | appos |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 OK | punct |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 OK | punct |
| 18 | often | often | ADV | _ | 19 help | advmod |
| 19 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 20 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 19 help | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 help | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | ok property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | help | infinitive | a few quiet minutes and a hug | often property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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:9.
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): R6-punct-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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