A new baby, sentence 45
When a baby is ill, older siblings feel the worry too; asking questions and telling a grown-up helps.
Who acts: baby, older siblings · What happens: be, feel, ask, tell, grow up, help · To what, where: worry, questions · 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 (baby, older siblings), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 ill | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 baby | det |
| 3 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ill | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ill | cop |
| 5 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 feel | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 siblings | punct |
| 7 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 siblings | amod |
| 8 | siblings | sibling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 feel | nsubj |
| 9 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 worry | det |
| 11 | worry | worry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 feel | obj |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 feel | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 asking | punct |
| 14 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 helps | nsubj |
| 15 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 asking | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 telling | cc |
| 17 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 asking | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 up | det |
| 19 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 helps | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 up | punct |
| 21 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 grown | compound:prt |
| 22 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 feel | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a baby | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | present | older siblings | the worry | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worry=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | gerund | questions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | gerund | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | grow up | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | help | present | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:504-a-new-baby.lesson:45.
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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×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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