Adults who help and adults who don't, sentence 21
Writing down what happened and when helps adults take a problem seriously.
Who acts: adults · What happens: write down, happen, help, take · To what, where: problem
This is a sentence of the lesson «Adults who help and adults who don't» 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 (adults), 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 | Writing | write | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Ger | 7 helps | nsubj |
| 2 | down | down | ADP | _ | 1 Writing | compound:prt |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Writing | ccomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 helps | cc |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 helps | advmod |
| 7 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | adults | adults | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 take | nsubj |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 helps | xcomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 problem | det |
| 11 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obj |
| 12 | seriously | seriously | ADV | _ | 9 take | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write down | gerund | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | help | present | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | take | infinitive | adults | a problem | seriously property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Theme |
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:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont.lesson:21.
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. 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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