Being a good grown-up, sentence 9

Asking for help is a grown-up skill; people think better of someone who asks than of someone who hides a problem until it explodes.

Who acts: Asking, people, problem · What happens: ask, grow, be, think, hide, explode · To what, where: grown skill, problem

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 (Asking, people, problem), 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	Asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 skill	csubj
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 help	case
3	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Asking	obl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 skill	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 skill	det
6	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 skill	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 up	punct
8	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grown	compound
9	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 think	punct
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 think	nsubj
12	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 skill	parataxis
13	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 think	ccomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 someone	case
15	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 better	obl
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 asks	nsubj
17	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 someone	acl:relcl
18	than	than	ADP	_	20 someone	case
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 someone	case
20	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 asks	obl
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 hides	nsubj
22	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 someone	acl:relcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 problem	det
24	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hides	obj
25	until	until	SCONJ	_	27 explodes	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 explodes	nsubj
27	explodes	explode	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 hides	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 skill	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund			for help	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present	Asking	a grown skill		tree rules
4	think speech: other	present	people			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	ask speech: ask	present			than someone	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	hide	present		a problem		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Patient
7	explode	present	problem			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: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): R5-strong ×1, 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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