The future: fears, rules and your part, sentence 12

Thinking about the future, for example by writing letters to it, helps us decide what we want now.

Who acts: Thinking, us, we · What happens: think, write, help, decide, want · To what, where: letters, example, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The future: fears, rules and your part» of the ai 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 (Thinking, us, we), 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	Thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 helps	csubj
2	about	about	ADP	_	4 future	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 future	det
4	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Thinking	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Thinking	punct
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 example	case
7	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Thinking	obl
8	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 writing	mark
9	writing	write	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Thinking	advcl
10	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 writing	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 writing	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 helps	punct
14	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 helps	obj
16	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 helps	xcomp
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 decide	obj
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 want	nsubj
19	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 decide	ccomp
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 want	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 helps	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	gerund					about the future; for example	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about future=Topic
2	write	gerund		letters	example			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent letter=Topic to it=Recipient
3	help	present	Thinking	us				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary clause=Theme
4	decide	infinitive	us not said here					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: agent=Agent what=Co-Agent clause=Topic
5	want	present	we			now		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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:ai:025-future-fears-rules.lesson:12.

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 ×2. 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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