Big feelings in big people, sentence 12
Grown-ups cry from sadness, stress, tiredness or relief; crying lets big feelings out and is normal and healthy, not a sign that everything is falling apart.
Who acts: Grown ups, crying, everything · What happens: grow, cry, let out, be, fall apart · To what, where: sadness, big feelings, sign
This is a sentence of the lesson «Big feelings in big people» 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 (Grown ups, crying, everything), 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 | Grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ups | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Grown | punct |
| 3 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cry | nsubj |
| 4 | cry | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 sadness | case |
| 6 | sadness | sadness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cry | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stress | punct |
| 8 | stress | stress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sadness | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tiredness | punct |
| 10 | tiredness | tiredness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sadness | conj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 relief | cc |
| 12 | relief | relief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tiredness | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 crying | punct |
| 14 | crying | crying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lets | nsubj |
| 15 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cry | parataxis |
| 16 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 feelings | amod |
| 17 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lets | obj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 lets | compound:prt |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 normal | cc |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 normal | cop |
| 21 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lets | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 healthy | cc |
| 23 | healthy | healthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 normal | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 sign | punct |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 sign | advmod |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 sign | det |
| 27 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cry | parataxis |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 falling | mark |
| 29 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 31 falling | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 falling | aux |
| 31 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 sign | acl |
| 32 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 31 falling | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cry | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | present | Grown ups | sadness and stress and tiredness or relief | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | let out | present | crying | big feelings | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | crying not said here | normal property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | crying not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | fall apart | present · progressive | everything | a sign not said here | apart 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:036-big-feelings-in-big-people.lesson:12.
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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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