Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them, sentence 19

You do not have to feel sad about a famous person you never knew; the people laying flowers knew their songs or films.

Who acts: You, people · What happens: not have, feel, not know, lay, know, sing · To what, where: famous person, flowers, songs

This is a sentence of the lesson «Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them» 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, people), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 feel	mark
6	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	xcomp
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 feel	xcomp
8	about	about	ADP	_	11 person	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 person	det
10	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 person	amod
11	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sad	obl
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 knew	nsubj
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 knew	advmod
14	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 person	acl:relcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 knew	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 people	det
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 knew	nsubj
18	laying	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 people	acl
19	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 laying	obj
20	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 have	parataxis
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 songs	nmod:poss
22	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 knew	obj
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 films	cc
24	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 songs	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not have	present · do-support	You			tree rules
2	feel	to-infinitive	You not said here		sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	not know	past	you	a famous person not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus
4	lay	gerund	the people not said here	flowers		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Result
5	know	past	the people	people's songs or films		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus
6	sing		people			nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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:051-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them.lesson:19.

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 ×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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