Big kids, little kids and the truth at home, sentence 32
Gentle make-believe with little children, like the moon following them, is usually harmless if it never scares them.
Who acts: moon, Gentle make believe, believe · What happens: follow, be, not scare · To what, where: children
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 (moon, Gentle make believe, believe), 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 | Gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 believe | amod |
| 2 | make | make | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 believe | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
| 4 | believe | believe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 harmless | nsubj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 children | case |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 children | amod |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 believe | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 moon | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 moon | det |
| 11 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 children | nmod |
| 12 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 moon | acl |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 following | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 harmless | cop |
| 16 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 17 harmless | advmod |
| 17 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 scares | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 scares | nsubj |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 scares | advmod |
| 21 | scares | scare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 harmless | advcl |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 scares | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | the moon not said here | children = child | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Gentle make believe with little children like the moon | harmless, usually property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not scare a condition, not said to happen | present | believe | children = child | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=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:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.lesson:32.
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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