Nightmares after a scary game, sentence 29
Talking about a frightening picture with a trusted adult usually makes it feel smaller.
Who acts: Talking, adult · What happens: talk, trust, make, feel
This is a sentence of the lesson «Nightmares after a scary game» 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 (Talking, adult), 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 | Talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 makes | csubj |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 picture | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 picture | det |
| 4 | frightening | frightening | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 picture | amod |
| 5 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Talking | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 adult | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 adult | det |
| 8 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 adult | amod |
| 9 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Talking | obl |
| 10 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 11 makes | advmod |
| 11 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 feel | nsubj |
| 13 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 makes | xcomp |
| 14 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 feel | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 makes | 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 | talk | gerund | about a frightening picture; with a trusted adult | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent about picture=Topic with adult=Co-Agent | |||||
| 2 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | make | present | Talking | usually property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | feel | infinitive | adult | small 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:402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures.lesson:29.
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): 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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