Facing fears, sentence 8
Asking the dentist to explain what they will do and agreeing a hand signal to pause makes a visit much less scary.
Who acts: illnesses, Asking · What happens: ask, explain, do, agree, pause, make · To what, where: dentist, hand signal, visit · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (illnesses, 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 | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 makes | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dentist | det |
| 3 | dentist | dentist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Asking | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 explain | mark |
| 5 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Asking | advcl |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 do | obj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 explain | ccomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 agreeing | cc |
| 11 | agreeing | agree | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Asking | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 signal | det |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 signal | compound |
| 14 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 agreeing | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 pause | mark |
| 16 | pause | pause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 signal | acl |
| 17 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 visit | det |
| 19 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 makes | obj |
| 20 | much | much | ADV | _ | 21 less | advmod |
| 21 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 scary | advmod |
| 22 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 makes | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | gerund | the dentist | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dentist=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | do | future | illnesses = illness | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | agree speech: agree | gerund | a hand signal | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent signal=Topic | |||||
| 5 | pause | to-infinitive | a hand signal not said here | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | make | present | Asking | a visit | scary property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset visit=Product |
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:8.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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