Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them, sentence 7
Good grown-ups do four things with scary news: they turn it down, they tell the truth simply, they show the helpers, and they find one small thing the family can do.
Who acts: Good grown ups, ups, family · What happens: grow, do, turn down, tell, show, find · To what, where: four things, country, truth, helpers, one small thing · 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 (Good grown ups, ups, family), 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 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ups | amod |
| 2 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ups | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 ups | punct |
| 4 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 things | nummod |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 do | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 news | case |
| 9 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 news | amod |
| 10 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 things | nmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 turn | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 turn | nsubj |
| 13 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 things | acl:relcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 turn | obj |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 turn | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tell | punct |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 tell | nsubj |
| 18 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 turn | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 truth | det |
| 20 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tell | obj |
| 21 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 18 tell | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 show | punct |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 show | nsubj |
| 24 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 tell | ccomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 helpers | det |
| 26 | helpers | helper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 show | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 find | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 find | cc |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 find | nsubj |
| 30 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 show | conj |
| 31 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 thing | nummod |
| 32 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 thing | amod |
| 33 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 find | obj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 family | det |
| 35 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 do | nsubj |
| 36 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 do | aux |
| 37 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 thing | acl:relcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | do | present | Good grown ups | four things | with scary news | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | turn down | present | ups = up | country | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | present | ups = up | the truth | simply property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 5 | show | present | ups = up | the helpers | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent helper=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | find | present | ups = up | one small thing | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | ||||
| 7 | do | can | the family | one small thing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
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:7.
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, 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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