Scary films, nightmares and sad endings, sentence 17

Hiding behind a cushion or switching off halfway is a sensible choice, not cowardice; being brave means doing what is right for you, not proving something.

Who acts: Hiding · What happens: hide, switch off, be, means, do, not prove · To what, where: cushion, sensible choice, something

This is a sentence of the lesson «Scary films, nightmares and sad endings» 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 (Hiding), 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	Hiding	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 choice	csubj
2	behind	behind	ADP	_	4 cushion	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cushion	det
4	cushion	cushion	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hiding	obl
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 switching	cc
6	switching	switch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Hiding	conj
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 switching	compound:prt
8	halfway	halfway	ADV	_	6 switching	advmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 choice	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 choice	det
11	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 choice	amod
12	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cowardice	punct
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 cowardice	advmod
15	cowardice	cowardice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 choice	appos
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 means	punct
17	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 brave	cop
18	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 means	csubj
19	means	means	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 choice	parataxis
20	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 means	xcomp
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 right	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 right	cop
23	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 doing	ccomp
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 you	case
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 right	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 proving	punct
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 proving	advmod
28	proving	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 doing	conj
29	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	28 proving	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 choice	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund			a cushion		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind cushion=Location
2	switch off	gerund				halfway property	vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	is a	present	Hiding	a sensible choice			tree rules
4	is	gerund				brave property	tree rules
5	means	present					tree rules
6	do	gerund					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	present				for you; right property	tree rules
8	not prove	gerund		something			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=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:056-scary-films-nightmares-and-sad-endings.lesson:17.

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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