Big kids, little kids and the truth at home, sentence 33

A «joke» that frightens a small child, especially at night, is no longer a joke.

Who acts: joke · What happens: frighten, be · To what, where: small child, joke

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 (joke), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 joke	det
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 joke	punct
3	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 joke	nsubj
4	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 joke	punct
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 frightens	nsubj
6	frightens	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 joke	acl:relcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 child	det
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 child	amod
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 frightens	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 night	punct
11	especially	especially	ADV	_	13 night	advmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 night	case
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 frightens	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 joke	punct
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 joke	cop
16	no	no	ADV	_	17 longer	advmod
17	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 joke	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 joke	det
19	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 joke	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frighten	present	a joke	a small child			night		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer
2	is a	present	a joke	a joke				long property	tree rules

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:33.

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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