Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met, sentence 24
Hearing about danger, like a war where a grandparent lives, is hard; telling a parent how you feel helps.
Who acts: grandparent, Hearing, you · What happens: hear, live, be, tell, feel, help · To what, where: parent · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met» 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 (grandparent, Hearing, 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 | Hearing | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 hard | csubj |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 3 danger | case |
| 3 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hearing | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 war | punct |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 war | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 war | det |
| 7 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hearing | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 lives | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 grandparent | det |
| 10 | grandparent | grandparent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lives | nsubj |
| 11 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 war | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hearing | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 hard | cop |
| 14 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 feel | punct |
| 16 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 helps | nsubj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 parent | det |
| 18 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 telling | iobj |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 feel | advmod |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 feel | nsubj |
| 21 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 telling | ccomp |
| 22 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 hard | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | about danger; like a war | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about danger=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | live | present | a grandparent | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | Hearing | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | gerund | a parent | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | feel | present | you | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 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:513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met.lesson:24.
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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