The only child: a quiet house, sentence 32
If being alone scares you, it is fine to tell your parents and ask for an after-school club instead.
What happens: be, scare, tell, ask · To what, where: you, parents · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The only child: a quiet house» 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: 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 scares | mark |
| 2 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 alone | cop |
| 3 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 scares | csubj |
| 4 | scares | scare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 fine | advcl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 scares | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 scares | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fine | expl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 fine | cop |
| 9 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 tell | mark |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 fine | csubj |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 parents | nmod:poss |
| 13 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tell | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ask | cc |
| 15 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 tell | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 club | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 club | det |
| 18 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 school | case |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 after | punct |
| 20 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 club | compound |
| 21 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ask | obl |
| 22 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 15 ask | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 fine | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | alone property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | scare a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | present | fine property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | your parents | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | for a school club; instead property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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