Sam is scared: fear is normal, sentence 24
Saying no to a risky dare, like a jump you are not ready for, is a sensible choice, not a weakness.
Who acts: you, Saying · What happens: say, not be, be · To what, where: no, risky dare, jump, sensible choice · 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 (you, Saying), 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 | Saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 choice | csubj |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 1 Saying | obj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 dare | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dare | det |
| 5 | risky | risky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dare | amod |
| 6 | dare | dare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Saying | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ready | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 jump | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 jump | det |
| 10 | jump | jump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dare | nmod |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 ready | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 ready | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 ready | advmod |
| 14 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 jump | acl:relcl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 ready | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Saying | punct |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 choice | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 choice | det |
| 19 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 choice | amod |
| 20 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 weakness | punct |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 weakness | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 weakness | det |
| 24 | weakness | weakness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 choice | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 choice | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | no | a risky dare like a jump | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent no=Topic to dare=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | you | a jump not said here | ready property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | present | Saying | a sensible choice and a weakness | tree rules |
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:24.
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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