The parents walk in: how good parents react, sentence 17
Some parents look embarrassed when a child asks about it; embarrassment is not anger, and asking was still right.
Who acts: parents, child, embarrassment · What happens: look, ask, not be, be · To what, where: anger
This is a sentence of the lesson «The parents walk in: how good parents react» 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 (parents, child, embarrassment), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 parents | det |
| 2 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 look | nsubj |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | embarrassed | embarrassed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 look | xcomp |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 asks | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 child | det |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asks | nsubj |
| 8 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 look | advcl |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asks | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 anger | punct |
| 12 | embarrassment | embarrassment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 anger | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 anger | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 anger | advmod |
| 15 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 look | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 right | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 right | cc |
| 18 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 right | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 right | cop |
| 20 | still | still | ADV | _ | 21 right | advmod |
| 21 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 look | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | some parents | embarrassed property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | a child | about film | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not is a | present | embarrassment | anger | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | gerund | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is | past | still | right 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:059-the-parents-walk-in-how-good-parents-react.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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