Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help, sentence 28
Older children whom others respect can often calm younger ones with words alone.
Who acts: others, Older children · What happens: respect, calm · To what, where: Older children, younger ones
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help» 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 (others, Older 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 | Older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 children | amod |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 calm | nsubj |
| 3 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 respect | obj |
| 4 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 respect | nsubj |
| 5 | respect | respect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 children | acl:relcl |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 calm | aux |
| 7 | often | often | ADV | _ | 8 calm | advmod |
| 8 | calm | calm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 ones | amod |
| 10 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 calm | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 words | case |
| 12 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 calm | obl |
| 13 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 8 calm | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 calm | 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 | respect | present | others | Older children | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | calm | can | Older children | younger ones | with words; alone, often property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus one=Experiencer |
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:393-bystanders.lesson:28.
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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