Sam is scared: fear is normal, sentence 22
Pretending to be ill to avoid something only puts the problem off; it does not solve it.
Who acts: problem · What happens: pretend, be, avoid, put off, not solve · To what, where: something, problem, thing
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sam is scared: fear is normal» 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 (problem), 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 | Pretending | pretend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 ill | mark |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ill | cop |
| 4 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Pretending | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 avoid | mark |
| 6 | avoid | avoid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ill | advcl |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 avoid | obj |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 puts | advmod |
| 9 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 something | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 problem | det |
| 11 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 puts | obj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 puts | compound:prt |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 solve | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 solve | nsubj |
| 15 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 solve | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 solve | advmod |
| 17 | solve | solve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Pretending | parataxis |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 solve | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pretending | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | ill property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | avoid | to-infinitive | something | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent something=Location | |||||
| 4 | put off | present | the problem | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent problem=Goal | |||||
| 5 | not solve | present · do-support | problem | thing | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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:366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal.lesson:22.
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 ×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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