Your uh-oh feeling, sentence 19

New but safe things, like a first swimming lesson, can also bring a nervous feeling; talking about it helps you tell the difference.

Who acts: New things, talking, you · What happens: bring, talk, help, tell · To what, where: nervous feeling, you, difference · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Your uh-oh feeling» 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 (New things, talking, you), 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	New	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 things	amod
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	3 safe	cc
3	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 New	conj
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 bring	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 things	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	10 lesson	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lesson	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 lesson	amod
9	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lesson	compound
10	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 things	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 things	punct
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 bring	aux
13	also	also	ADV	_	14 bring	advmod
14	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 feeling	det
16	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 feeling	amod
17	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bring	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 talking	punct
19	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 helps	csubj
20	about	about	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 talking	obl
22	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 bring	parataxis
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 helps	obj
24	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 helps	xcomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 difference	det
26	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tell	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 bring	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bring	can	New things like a first swimming lesson	a nervous feeling		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent feeling=Theme
2	talk	gerund			about thing	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
3	help	present	talking	you		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	the difference		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent difference=Recipient

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:019-uh-oh-feeling.lesson:19.

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): R1-cc-next ×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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