Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and parental controls, sentence 21
Slow breathing, such as breathing in while counting to four and out while counting to six, helps calm a racing heart.
Who acts: Slow breathing · What happens: breathe in, count, help, calm · To what, where: racing heart
This is a sentence of the lesson «Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and parental controls» 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 (Slow breathing), 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 | Slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 breathing | amod |
| 2 | breathing | breathing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 helps | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 breathing | punct |
| 4 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 6 breathing | mark |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 such | fixed |
| 6 | breathing | breathe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 breathing | acl:relcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 breathing | compound:prt |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 counting | mark |
| 9 | counting | count | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 breathing | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 four | case |
| 11 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 counting | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 counting | cc |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 15 counting | advmod |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 counting | mark |
| 15 | counting | count | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 counting | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 six | case |
| 17 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 counting | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 breathing | punct |
| 19 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | calm | calm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 helps | xcomp |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 heart | det |
| 22 | racing | racing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 heart | compound |
| 23 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 calm | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breathe in | gerund | Slow breathing not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | count | gerund | Slow breathing not said here | to four | vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to four=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | count | gerund | Slow breathing not said here | to six; out property | vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to six=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | help | present | Slow breathing | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | calm | infinitive | Slow breathing not said here | a racing heart | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus heart=Experiencer |
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:060-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls.lesson:21.
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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/60-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls/21/