Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them, sentence 21

It is all right to be happy, have a party or laugh while sad things happen far away; you can be kind and joyful at once.

Who acts: sad things, you · What happens: be, have, laugh, happen · To what, where: party

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 (sad things, you), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 right	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 right	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 right	advmod
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 happy	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 happy	cop
7	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 right	csubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
9	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 happy	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 party	det
11	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	obj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 laugh	cc
13	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 have	conj
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 happen	mark
15	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 things	amod
16	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 happen	nsubj
17	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 laugh	advcl
18	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 away	advmod
19	away	away	ADV	_	17 happen	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 kind	punct
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 kind	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 kind	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 kind	cop
24	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 right	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 joyful	cc
26	joyful	joyful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 kind	conj
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 once	case
28	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	24 kind	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 right	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			all, right property	tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive			happy property	tree rules
3	have	infinitive		a party		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Patient
4	laugh	infinitive				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	happen	present	sad things		away property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	can	you		kind property	tree rules
7	be		you not said here			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:051-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them.lesson:21.

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. 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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