Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder, spiders, deep water, the news, getting lost) and boredom, sentence 16
If the news about wars, fires or disasters scares you, ask an adult to explain and watch less news; the news shows the worst things and often not the helpers.
Who acts: news · What happens: scare, ask, explain, watch, show · To what, where: you, adult, less news, worst things
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 (news), 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 | _ | 10 scares | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 news | det |
| 3 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 scares | nsubj |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 wars | case |
| 5 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 news | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fires | punct |
| 7 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wars | conj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 disasters | cc |
| 9 | disasters | disaster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fires | conj |
| 10 | scares | scare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 scares | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ask | punct |
| 13 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 scares | conj |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 adult | det |
| 15 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ask | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 explain | mark |
| 17 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 ask | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 watch | cc |
| 19 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 explain | conj |
| 20 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 news | amod |
| 21 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 watch | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 shows | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 news | det |
| 24 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 shows | nsubj |
| 25 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 scares | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 things | det |
| 27 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 things | amod |
| 28 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 shows | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 helpers | cc |
| 30 | often | often | ADV | _ | 33 helpers | advmod |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 helpers | advmod |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 helpers | det |
| 33 | helpers | helper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 things | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 scares | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scare | present | the news about wars and fires or disasters | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | the news about wars and fires or disasters 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 | the news about wars and fires or disasters not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | watch | infinitive | the news about wars and fires or disasters not said here | less news | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme | ||||
| 5 | 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:319-anger-fears-and-boredom.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, 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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