The parents walk in: how good parents react, sentence 24

Thanking a child for telling makes it easier for them to tell again.

Who acts: Thanking, families · What happens: thank, tell, make · To what, where: child · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Thanking, families), 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	Thanking	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 makes	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 child	det
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Thanking	obj
4	for	for	SCONJ	_	5 telling	mark
5	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Thanking	advcl
6	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 easier	obj
8	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 makes	xcomp
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 tell	mark
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tell	nsubj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 tell	mark
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 easier	advcl
13	again	again	ADV	_	12 tell	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 makes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	gerund		a child			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	gerund					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	present	Thanking			easy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	families = family		again		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:24.

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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