Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell, sentence 5
Nerves are normal, even for adults, and practice, a slow breath and a smile help most.
Who acts: Nerves, practice · What happens: be, help
This is a sentence of the lesson «Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell» of the english 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 (Nerves, practice), 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 | Nerves | nerve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 normal | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 normal | cop |
| 3 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 adults | punct |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 adults | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 adults | case |
| 7 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 normal | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 practice | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 practice | cc |
| 10 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 help | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 breath | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 breath | det |
| 13 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 breath | amod |
| 14 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 practice | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 smile | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 help | det |
| 17 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 breath | conj |
| 18 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 normal | conj |
| 19 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 18 help | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 normal | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Nerves | for adults; normal property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | help | present | practice and a slow breath and smile | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:english:048-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell.lesson:5.
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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