Sam is scared: fear is normal, sentence 23
Telling a trusted grown-up about a fear that keeps coming back is the first step to solving it.
Who acts: fear, Telling · What happens: tell, trust, keep, come back, be, solve · To what, where: trusted grown, first step, grown · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (fear, Telling), 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 | Telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 step | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 grown | det |
| 3 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 grown | amod |
| 4 | grown | grow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Telling | obj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 up | punct |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 grown | compound:prt |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 fear | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fear | det |
| 9 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Telling | obl |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 keeps | nsubj |
| 11 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 fear | acl:relcl |
| 12 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 keeps | xcomp |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 coming | advmod |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 step | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 step | det |
| 16 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 step | amod |
| 17 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 19 solving | mark |
| 19 | solving | solve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 step | acl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 solving | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 step | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | a trusted grown | about a fear | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent grow=Recipient about fear=Topic | ||||
| 2 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | keep | present | a fear | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | come back | gerund | a fear not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | Telling | the first step | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | solve | gerund | grown = grow | 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:23.
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): R6-punct-agree ×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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