Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder, spiders, deep water, the news, getting lost) and boredom, sentence 10
If you are scared of a vaccination needle, tell the nurse, look away, breathe out slowly and hold a hand; the sting lasts a second and the vaccine protects you from serious illnesses.
Who acts: you, sting, vaccine · What happens: be, tell, look away, breathe out, hold, last · To what, where: nurse, hand, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder, spiders, deep water, the news, getting lost) and boredom» 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, sting, vaccine), 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 scared | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 scared | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 scared | cop |
| 4 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tell | advcl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 needle | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 needle | det |
| 7 | vaccination | vaccination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 needle | compound |
| 8 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scared | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 scared | punct |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 nurse | det |
| 12 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tell | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 look | punct |
| 14 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 tell | conj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 look | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 breathe | punct |
| 17 | breathe | breathe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 look | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 breathe | compound:prt |
| 19 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 17 breathe | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hold | cc |
| 21 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 look | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 hand | det |
| 23 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hold | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 lasts | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sting | det |
| 26 | sting | sting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lasts | nsubj |
| 27 | lasts | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 tell | parataxis |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 second | det |
| 29 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lasts | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 protects | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 vaccine | det |
| 32 | vaccine | vaccine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 protects | nsubj |
| 33 | protects | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 lasts | conj |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 protects | obj |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 illnesses | case |
| 36 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 illnesses | amod |
| 37 | illnesses | illness | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 protects | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | you | of a vaccination needle; scared property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | the nurse | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nurse=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | look away | infinitive | you not said here | away property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | breathe out | infinitive | you not said here | slowly property | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | hold | infinitive | you not said here | a hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 6 | last | present | the sting | second | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | protect | present | the vaccine | you | from serious illnesses | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary from illness=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:319-anger-fears-and-boredom.lesson:10.
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): 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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