Sam is scared: fear is normal, sentence 7
At tea Grandad says: «Being frightened means you're a coward, lad.» Dad puts his fork down.
Who acts: Grandad, you, Dad · What happens: say, be, mean, put down · To what, where: tea, coward, fork · 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 (Grandad, you, Dad), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 Grandad | case |
| 2 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | obl |
| 3 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
| 7 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 frightened | cop |
| 8 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 means | csubj:pass |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | ccomp |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 coward | nsubj |
| 11 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 coward | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 coward | det |
| 13 | coward | coward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lad | punct |
| 15 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 coward | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
| 18 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 puts | nsubj |
| 19 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | parataxis |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 fork | nmod:poss |
| 21 | fork | fork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 puts | obj |
| 22 | down | down | ADV | _ | 19 puts | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Grandad | tea | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | gerund | frighten property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | mean in a quote | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | you | a coward and lad | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | put down | present | Dad | Sam's fork | down property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fork=Goal |
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:7.
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 ×2. 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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