Trusted adults and asking for help, sentence 2

Asking for help is not weak or babyish; adults ask for help all the time, and a problem shared early is usually much easier to fix.

Who acts: Asking, adults, problem · What happens: ask, not be, be, share, fix · To what, where: problem

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, adults, problem), 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	6 weak	csubj
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 help	case
3	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Asking	obl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 weak	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 weak	advmod
6	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 babyish	cc
8	babyish	babyish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 weak	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 ask	punct
10	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ask	nsubj
11	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 weak	parataxis
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 help	case
13	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ask	obl
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 time	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 time	det
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ask	obl:unmarked
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 easier	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 easier	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 problem	det
20	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 easier	nsubj
21	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 problem	acl
22	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 shared	advmod
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 easier	cop
24	usually	usually	ADV	_	25 much	advmod
25	much	much	ADV	_	26 easier	advmod
26	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 weak	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 fix	mark
28	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 easier	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 weak	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund				for help	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is	present	Asking			weak property	tree rules
3	be		Asking not said here				tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	present	adults		time	for help	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	share	participle		a problem not said here		early property	tree rules
6	is	present	a problem			easy property	tree rules
7	fix	to-infinitive	a problem 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:2.

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): 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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