Big kids, little kids and the truth at home, sentence 3

Kind make-believe with little ones is mostly fine, as long as it is never used to scare them or to get something out of them.

Who acts: make · What happens: be, not use, scare, get · To what, where: make, them, something

This is a sentence of the lesson «Big kids, little kids and the truth at home» 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 (make), 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	Kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 make	advmod
2	make	make	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fine	nsubj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 make	punct
4	believe	believe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	flat
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 ones	case
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ones	amod
7	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fine	cop
9	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	10 fine	advmod
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fine	punct
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 long	advmod
13	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 fine	advmod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 used	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 used	nsubj:pass
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 used	aux:pass
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 used	advmod
18	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 long	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 scare	mark
20	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 used	xcomp
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 scare	obj
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 get	cc
23	to	to	PART	_	24 get	mark
24	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 scare	conj
25	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 get	obj
26	out	out	ADP	_	28 them	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 get	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 fine	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: evaluate
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=pos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	make with little ones		fine, long, mostly property	tree rules
2	not use	present · passive		make		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Theme clause=Eventuality
3	scare	to-infinitive		them = they		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
4	get	to-infinitive		something	out them = they	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=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:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.lesson:3.

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): R1-cc-next ×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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