Greeting neighbours and new people, sentence 8
Lonely older people are cheered by being noticed, and a check in bad weather may help in an emergency.
Who acts: check · What happens: cheer, notice, help · To what, where: Lonely older people, emergency
This is a sentence of the lesson «Greeting neighbours and new people» 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 (check), 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 | Lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 2 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cheered | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cheered | aux:pass |
| 5 | cheered | cheer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 noticed | mark |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 noticed | aux:pass |
| 8 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cheered | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 help | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 help | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 check | det |
| 12 | check | check | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 help | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 weather | case |
| 14 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 weather | amod |
| 15 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 check | nmod |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 help | aux |
| 17 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cheered | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 emergency | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 emergency | det |
| 20 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 help | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cheered | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cheer | present · passive | Lonely older people | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | notice | gerund · passive | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING» | ||||||
| 3 | help | may | a check in bad weather | a emergency | 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:everyday:123-neighbours-and-new-people.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): R5-strong ×1. 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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