Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark, sentence 8

Staying silent about an unkind joke about a group of people can seem like agreement.

Who acts: Staying · What happens: stay, seem

This is a sentence of the lesson «Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark» of the everyday 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 (Staying), 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	Staying	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 seem	csubj
2	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Staying	xcomp
3	about	about	ADP	_	6 joke	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 joke	det
5	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 joke	amod
6	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Staying	obl
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 group	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 group	det
9	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 joke	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 people	case
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 group	nmod
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 seem	aux
13	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	like	like	ADP	_	15 agreement	case
15	agreement	agreement	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seem	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 seem	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	gerund						about a unkind joke about a group of people; silent property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about joke=Location
2	seem	can	Staying					like agreement	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

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:everyday:100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark.lesson:8.

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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