Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met, sentence 4
Hearing about danger is hard, and it helps to tell Mum or Dad how it feels.
Who acts: Hearing, danger · What happens: hear, be, help, tell, feel · To what, where: danger, Mum · 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 (Hearing, danger), 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 | 5 hard | csubj |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 3 danger | case |
| 3 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hearing | obl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hard | cop |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 helps | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 helps | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 helps | expl |
| 9 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hard | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 tell | mark |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 helps | xcomp |
| 12 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tell | obj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 Dad | cc |
| 14 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Mum | conj |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 feels | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 feels | nsubj |
| 17 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 tell | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about danger=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Hearing | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | help | present | Hearing not said here | danger | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | danger not said here | Mum or Dad | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | feel | present | danger | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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:4.
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 ×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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