Trusted adults and asking for help, sentence 11
Asking for help early makes most problems easier to fix.
Who acts: Asking · What happens: ask, make, fix · To what, where: most problems
This is a sentence of the lesson «Trusted adults and asking for help» 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 | 5 makes | csubj |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 help | case |
| 3 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Asking | obl |
| 4 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Asking | advmod |
| 5 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 problems | amod |
| 7 | problems | problem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 makes | obj |
| 8 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 makes | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 fix | mark |
| 10 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 easier | advcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 makes | 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 | for help; early property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | make | present | Asking | most problems | easy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset problem=Product | |||
| 3 | fix | to-infinitive | Asking not said here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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:056-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help.lesson:11.
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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