A new baby, sentence 19
Not knowing is scarier than the truth, so ask your parents what's happening.
Who acts: knowing · What happens: not know, be, ask, happen · To what, where: parents · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «A new baby» 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 (knowing), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 knowing | advmod |
| 2 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 scarier | csubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 scarier | cop |
| 4 | scarier | scary | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 truth | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 truth | det |
| 7 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scarier | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ask | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 ask | advmod |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 scarier | parataxis |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 parents | nmod:poss |
| 12 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ask | obj |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 happening | nsubj |
| 14 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 happening | aux |
| 15 | happening | happen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 ask | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 scarier | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | knowing | than the truth; scary property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | your parents | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | happen | present · progressive | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:504-a-new-baby.lesson:19.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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