Facing fears, sentence 6
Talking about a scary film with a parent makes the fear smaller, and films are made up with special effects.
Who acts: Talking · What happens: talk, make, make up · To what, where: fear, films
This is a sentence of the lesson «Facing fears» 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 (Talking), 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 | Talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 makes | csubj |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 film | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 film | det |
| 4 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 film | amod |
| 5 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Talking | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 parent | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 parent | det |
| 8 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Talking | obl |
| 9 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fear | det |
| 11 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 makes | obj |
| 12 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 makes | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 made | cc |
| 15 | films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 made | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 made | aux:pass |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 makes | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 made | compound:prt |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 effects | case |
| 20 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 effects | amod |
| 21 | effects | effect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 made | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | gerund | about a scary film; with a parent | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent about film=Topic with parent=Co-Agent | |||||
| 2 | make | present | Talking | the fear | small property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fear=Product | |||
| 3 | make up | present · passive | films | with special effects | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot |
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:090-facing-fears.lesson:6.
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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