Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them, sentence 5

Mum turns the sound down, finds the country on the map with him and says, "That's thousands of miles away, love.

Who acts: Mum, That · What happens: turn down, find, say, be · To what, where: sound, country, map · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Mum, That), 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	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sound	det
4	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	2 turns	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 finds	punct
7	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 turns	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 country	det
9	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 finds	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 map	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 map	det
12	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 finds	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 finds	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 says	cc
16	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 turns	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 away	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 away	punct
19	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 away	nsubj
20	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 away	cop
21	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 away	obl:unmarked
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 miles	case
23	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 thousands	nmod
24	away	away	ADV	_	16 says	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 love	punct
26	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 away	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 turns	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn down	present	Mum	the sound			vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme
2	find	present	Mum not said here	the country	the map	with Ollie	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Topic
3	say speech: assert	present	Mum not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	That			thousands of miles obl:unmarked; love obl; away 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:051-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them.lesson:5.

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): no change. 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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