Being a good grown-up, sentence 10

Being kind when you are stressed and in a hurry, like letting a car in during a traffic jam, is harder than being kind when things are easy.

Who acts: kind, things · What happens: be, stress, let in · To what, where: you, car

This is a sentence of the lesson «Being a good grown-up» 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 (kind, things), 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	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 kind	cop
2	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 harder	nsubj
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 stressed	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 stressed	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stressed	aux:pass
6	stressed	stress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 kind	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hurry	cc
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 hurry	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hurry	det
10	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stressed	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 letting	punct
12	like	like	SCONJ	_	13 letting	mark
13	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 kind	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 car	det
15	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 letting	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	13 letting	compound:prt
17	during	during	ADP	_	20 jam	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 jam	det
19	traffic	traffic	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 jam	compound
20	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 letting	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 harder	punct
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 harder	cop
23	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
24	than	than	SCONJ	_	26 kind	mark
25	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 kind	cop
26	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 harder	advcl
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 easy	advmod
28	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 easy	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 easy	cop
30	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 kind	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 harder	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund				kind property	tree rules
2	stress	present · passive		you			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
3	let in	gerund		a car	during a traffic jam		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme
4	is	present	kind			hard property	tree rules
5	is	gerund	kind not said here			kind property	tree rules
6	is	present	things			easy 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:040-being-a-good-grown-up.lesson:10.

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, 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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