Handling anger and everyday fears, sentence 21
If the news scares you, ask an adult to explain and limit how much news you watch; the news shows the worst things and often not the helpers.
Who acts: news, you · What happens: scare, ask, explain, limit, watch, show · To what, where: you, adult, much news, worst things
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 (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 | 7 ask | advcl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 scares | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ask | punct |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 adult | det |
| 9 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ask | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 explain | mark |
| 11 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 ask | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 limit | cc |
| 13 | limit | limit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 explain | conj |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 much | advmod |
| 15 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 news | amod |
| 16 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 watch | obj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 watch | nsubj |
| 18 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 limit | ccomp |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 shows | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 news | det |
| 21 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shows | nsubj |
| 22 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ask | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 things | det |
| 24 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 things | amod |
| 25 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 shows | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 helpers | cc |
| 27 | often | often | ADV | _ | 30 helpers | advmod |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 helpers | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 helpers | det |
| 30 | helpers | helper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 things | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | 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 | imperative | you not said here | 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 | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Causer clause=Goal | |||||
| 5 | watch | present | you | much news | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme | ||||
| 6 | show | present | the news | the worst things and the helpers | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=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:291-handling-anger-and-fear.lesson:21.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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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