Feelings and calming down, sentence 23
Someone who is heartbroken is very sad because a boyfriend or girlfriend has ended things; being gentle and giving them space helps.
Who acts: Someone, boyfriend, gentle · What happens: be, ended, give, help · To what, where: things, space
This is a sentence of the lesson «Feelings and calming down» 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 (Someone, boyfriend, gentle), 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 | Someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 sad | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 heartbroken | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heartbroken | cop |
| 4 | heartbroken | heartbroken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Someone | acl:relcl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sad | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 sad | advmod |
| 7 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 ended | mark |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 boyfriend | det |
| 10 | boyfriend | boyfriend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ended | nsubj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 girlfriend | cc |
| 12 | girlfriend | girlfriend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 boyfriend | conj |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 ended | aux |
| 14 | ended | ended | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 sad | advcl |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ended | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 gentle | punct |
| 17 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 gentle | cop |
| 18 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 helps | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 giving | cc |
| 20 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 gentle | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 giving | iobj |
| 22 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 giving | obj |
| 23 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sad | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sad | 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 | heartbroken property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Someone | sad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ended | present · perfect | a boyfriend or girlfriend | things | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | gerund | gentle property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | give | gerund | space | things = thing | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient space=Theme | ||||
| 6 | help | present | gentle | 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:053-feelings-and-calming-down.lesson:23.
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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