Looking after yourself and a home, sentence 15

Lots of young adults find phone calls to strangers scary; planning what to say first helps, and it gets easier with practice.

Who acts: Lots, planning, Renting · What happens: find, plan, say, help, get · To what, where: phone calls · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Looking after yourself and a home» 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 (Lots, planning, Renting), 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	Lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 find	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 adults	case
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 adults	amod
4	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Lots	nmod
5	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 calls	compound
7	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 find	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 strangers	case
9	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 calls	nmod
10	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 find	xcomp
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 planning	punct
12	planning	plan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 helps	csubj
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 say	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 say	mark
15	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 planning	xcomp
16	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 say	advmod
17	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 find	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gets	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 gets	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gets	nsubj
21	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 find	conj
22	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 gets	xcomp
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 practice	case
24	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gets	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 find	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	present	Lots of young adults	phone calls	to strangers; scary property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Topic
2	plan	gerund				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive			first property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
4	help	present	planning			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	get	present	Renting = rent		with practice; easy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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:038-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home.lesson:15.

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 ×2. 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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