The only child: a quiet house, sentence 6
If being alone scares you, say so.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, scare, say · To what, where: you · 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: who acts (you), 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 | 7 say | advcl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 scares | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 scares | punct |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 say | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | 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 not said here | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:6.
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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