Rumours and gossip, sentence 7
A frightened child tells an adult, who checks and reassures her.
Who acts: frightened child, adult · What happens: tell, check, reassure · To what, where: adult · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rumours and gossip» 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 (frightened child, adult), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 child | det |
| 2 | frightened | frighten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 child | amod |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tells | nsubj |
| 4 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 adult | det |
| 6 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tells | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 checks | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 checks | nsubj |
| 9 | checks | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 adult | acl:relcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 reassures | cc |
| 11 | reassures | reassure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 checks | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 reassures | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | a frightened child | a adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | check | present | a adult | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | reassure | present | a adult not said here | adult | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
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:202-rumours-and-gossip.lesson:7.
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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