Sam is scared: fear is normal, sentence 27
Many adults remember being scared at school; talking about it helps children feel less alone.
Who acts: Many adults, talking, children · What happens: remember, scare, talk, help, feel · To what, where: school, children
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 (Many adults, talking, children), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 adults | amod |
| 2 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 remember | nsubj |
| 3 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 scared | aux:pass |
| 5 | scared | scare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 remember | xcomp |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 school | case |
| 7 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scared | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 talking | punct |
| 9 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 helps | csubj |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 talking | obl |
| 12 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 remember | parataxis |
| 13 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 helps | obj |
| 14 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 helps | xcomp |
| 15 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 alone | advmod |
| 16 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 feel | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | present | Many adults | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | scare | gerund · passive | Many adults not said here | school | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||
| 3 | talk | gerund | about school | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | |||||
| 4 | help | present | talking | children | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | feel | present | children not said here | alone property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:27.
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 ×2, 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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