Anger and fears, sentence 16
If the news scares you, you ask an adult to explain and limit how much news you watch.
Who acts: news, you · What happens: scare, ask, explain, limit, watch · To what, where: you, adult, much news
This is a sentence of the lesson «Anger and fears» 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 (news, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 scares | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 news | det |
| 3 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scares | nsubj |
| 4 | scares | scare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ask | advcl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 scares | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 scares | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 ask | nsubj |
| 8 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 adult | det |
| 10 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ask | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 explain | mark |
| 12 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ask | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 limit | cc |
| 14 | limit | limit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 explain | conj |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 news | amod |
| 17 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 limit | obj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 watch | nsubj |
| 19 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 news | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=suggest
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scare a condition, not said to happen | present | the news | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | you | a adult | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | explain speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | limit | infinitive | you not said here | much news | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer news=Patient | ||||
| 5 | watch | present | you | much news not said here | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=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:212-anger-and-fears.lesson:16.
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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