Reading faces and voices, sentence 17
If someone is upset with you, staying calm and speaking quietly helps them calm down too.
Who acts: someone, staying, bodies · What happens: be, stay, speak, help, calm down · To what, where: bodies · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading faces and voices» 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 (someone, staying, bodies), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 upset | mark |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 upset | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 upset | cop |
| 4 | upset | upset | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 helps | advcl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 upset | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 upset | punct |
| 8 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 helps | csubj |
| 9 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 staying | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 speaking | cc |
| 11 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 staying | conj |
| 12 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 11 speaking | advmod |
| 13 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 helps | obj |
| 15 | calm | calm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 helps | xcomp |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 calm | compound:prt |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 calm | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 helps | 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 a condition, not said to happen | present | someone | with you; upset property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stay | gerund | calm property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | gerund | quietly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | help | present | staying | bodies = body | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | calm down | infinitive | bodies = body not said here | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: 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:014-faces-and-voices.lesson:17.
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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