When a parent has died, sentence 42
Friends help a grieving child most by including them, not by avoiding them.
Who acts: Friends · What happens: help, grieve, include, not avoid · To what, where: grieving child, friends
This is a sentence of the lesson «When a parent has died» 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 (Friends), 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 | Friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 help | nsubj |
| 2 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 child | det |
| 4 | grieving | grieve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 child | amod |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 help | obj |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 2 help | advmod |
| 7 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 including | mark |
| 8 | including | include | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 help | advcl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 including | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 avoiding | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 avoiding | advmod |
| 12 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 13 avoiding | mark |
| 13 | avoiding | avoid | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 help | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 avoiding | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 help | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | Friends | a grieving child | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | grieve | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | include | gerund | Friends not said here | friends = friend | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not avoid | gerund | Friends not said here | friends = friend | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent they=Location |
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:518-when-a-parent-has-died.lesson:42.
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): no change. 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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