Worry and sadness, sentence 7
Asking how likely a worry really is, and what you could do if it happened, makes it smaller.
Who acts: worry, you, it, Asking · What happens: ask, be, do, happen, make · To what, where: brain · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (worry, you, it, 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 | 18 makes | csubj |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 likely | advmod |
| 3 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Asking | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 worry | det |
| 5 | worry | worry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 likely | nsubj |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 3 likely | advmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 likely | cop |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 do | cc |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 do | obj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 do | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | aux |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 likely | conj |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 happened | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 happened | nsubj |
| 16 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Asking | punct |
| 18 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 makes | obj |
| 20 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 makes | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 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 | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | a worry | likely property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | could | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | happen a condition, not said to happen | past | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | make | present | Asking | brain | small property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=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:7.
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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