Worry and sadness, sentence 9

When you are not sure if you did something wrong, asking is better than guessing, because the worry is often much bigger than what happened.

Who acts: you, asking, worry · What happens: not be, do, ask, be, guess, happen · To what, where: something

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 (you, asking, worry), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 sure	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 sure	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sure	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 sure	advmod
5	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 better	advcl
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 did	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 did	nsubj
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sure	ccomp
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 did	obj
10	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 something	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 asking	punct
12	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 better	csubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 better	cop
14	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
15	than	than	SCONJ	_	16 guessing	mark
16	guessing	guess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 better	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 better	punct
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	24 bigger	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 worry	det
20	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bigger	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 bigger	cop
22	often	often	ADV	_	23 much	advmod
23	much	much	ADV	_	24 bigger	advmod
24	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 better	advcl
25	than	than	SCONJ	_	27 happened	mark
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 happened	nsubj
27	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 bigger	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 better	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	present	you		sure property	tree rules
2	do a condition, not said to happen	past	you	something		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
3	ask speech: ask	gerund				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	asking		good property	tree rules
5	guess	gerund	asking not said here			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	the worry		big property	tree rules
7	happen	past				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:9.

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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