Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills, sentence 7
Asking for help early is always better than going hungry or worrying alone.
Who acts: Asking · What happens: ask, be, go, worry
This is a sentence of the lesson «Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills» 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 (Asking), 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 | Asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 better | csubj |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 help | case |
| 3 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Asking | obl |
| 4 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Asking | advmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 better | cop |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 better | advmod |
| 7 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 8 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 9 going | mark |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 better | advcl |
| 10 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 going | xcomp |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 worrying | cc |
| 12 | worrying | worry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 going | conj |
| 13 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 12 worrying | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 better | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | gerund | for help; early property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Asking | always, good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | gerund | Asking not said here | hungry property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | worry | gerund | Asking not said here | alone property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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:307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills.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): 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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