Jake and the head teacher, sentence 19
Being trusted with a job, like looking after younger children, often helps a child behave well.
Who acts: child · What happens: trust, look, help, behave
This is a sentence of the lesson «Jake and the head teacher» 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 (child), 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 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 trusted | aux:pass |
| 2 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 helps | csubj:pass |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 job | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 job | det |
| 5 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 trusted | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 looking | punct |
| 7 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 8 looking | mark |
| 8 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 trusted | advcl |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 children | case |
| 10 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 children | amod |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 looking | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 helps | punct |
| 13 | often | often | ADV | _ | 14 helps | advmod |
| 14 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 child | det |
| 16 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 behave | nsubj |
| 17 | behave | behave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 helps | xcomp |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 behave | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust | gerund · passive | with a job | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: with job=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | gerund | after younger children | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | help | present | often property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | behave | infinitive | a child | well property | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
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:373-jake-and-the-head-teacher.lesson:19.
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): no change. 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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