Worry and sadness, sentence 21

Talking to a trusted adult about worries is one of the best ways to make them smaller.

Who acts: Talking · What happens: talk, be, make · To what, where: one, sleep

This is a sentence of the lesson «Worry and sadness» 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 one	csubj
2	to	to	ADP	_	5 adult	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 adult	det
4	trusted	trust	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 adult	amod
5	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Talking	obl
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 worries	case
7	worries	worry	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 adult	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 one	cop
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 ways	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ways	det
12	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 ways	amod
13	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 one	nmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 make	mark
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 ways	acl
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 make	obj
17	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 make	xcomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 one	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	talk	gerund			to a trusted adult about worries	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to adult=Co-Agent
2	is a	present	Talking	one	of the best ways	tree rules
3	make	to-infinitive	Talking not said here	sleep	small property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=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:091-worry-and-sadness.lesson:21.

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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