Handling anger and everyday fears, sentence 19

Keep your distance from spiders and insects and ask an adult to move them; most are harmless, though in Australia some spiders do need an adult.

Who acts: you, most, spiders · What happens: keep, ask, move, be, need · To what, where: distance, spiders, adult, insects, Australia

This is a sentence of the lesson «Handling anger and everyday 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 (you, most, spiders), 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	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 distance	nmod:poss
3	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 spiders	case
5	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Keep	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 insects	cc
7	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spiders	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ask	cc
9	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	conj
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 adult	det
11	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ask	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 move	mark
13	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 ask	xcomp
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 move	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 harmless	punct
16	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 harmless	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 harmless	cop
18	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keep	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 need	punct
20	though	though	SCONJ	_	26 need	mark
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 Australia	case
22	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 need	obl
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 spiders	det
24	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 need	nsubj
25	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 need	aux
26	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 harmless	advcl
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 adult	det
28	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 need	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Keep	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	your distance		spiders and insects		vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer distance=Beneficiary from spider=Eventuality
2	ask speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here		a adult			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic
3	move not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	insects = insect				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	is	present	most				harmless property	tree rules
5	need	present · do-support	some spiders	a adult		Australia		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot adult=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:291-handling-anger-and-fear.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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