Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad, sentence 26

He's scared and doesn't want to leave his dog, and the wise move is to tell his parents how he feels and ask lots of questions.

Who acts: Henry, wise move · What happens: be, not want, leave, feel, ask · To what, where: dog, parents, lots

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad» 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 (Henry, wise move), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 want	cc
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 want	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 want	advmod
7	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 scared	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 leave	mark
9	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 want	xcomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 dog	nmod:poss
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leave	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tell	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tell	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 move	det
15	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 move	amod
16	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tell	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 tell	cop
18	to	to	PART	_	19 tell	mark
19	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 scared	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 parents	nmod:poss
21	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 tell	iobj
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 feels	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 feels	nsubj
24	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 tell	advcl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 ask	cc
26	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 tell	conj
27	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 ask	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 questions	case
29	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 lots	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 scared	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Henry			scared property	tree rules
2	not want	present · do-support	Henry not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	Henry not said here	Henry's dog			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme
4	is	present	the wise move		Henry's parents	tell property	tree rules
5	feel	present	Henry				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	ask speech: ask	infinitive	the wise move not said here	lots of questions			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lot=Recipient

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:491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad.lesson:26.

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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