Dementia and the first death in the family, sentence 32
Asking the scary question out loud is brave, and talking helps.
Who acts: Asking · What happens: ask, be, talk, help · To what, where: scary question
This is a sentence of the lesson «Dementia and the first death in the family» 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 (Asking), 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 | Asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 brave | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 question | det |
| 3 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 question | amod |
| 4 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Asking | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 1 Asking | advmod |
| 6 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 5 out | advmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 brave | cop |
| 8 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 helps | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 helps | cc |
| 11 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 helps | nsubj |
| 12 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 brave | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 brave | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | gerund | the scary question | out property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Asking | brave property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | talk | gerund | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | 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:514-dementia-and-the-first-death-in-the-family.lesson:32.
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): R6-punct-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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