Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings, sentence 23
When something is frustrating, a short break and asking for help work better than giving up or breaking things.
Who acts: something, short break · What happens: be, ask, work, give up, break · To what, where: things
This is a sentence of the lesson «Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings» 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 (something, short break), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 4 frustrating | mark |
| 2 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 frustrating | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 frustrating | cop |
| 4 | frustrating | frustrating | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 work | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 break | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 break | det |
| 7 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 break | amod |
| 8 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 work | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 asking | cc |
| 10 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 break | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 help | case |
| 12 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asking | obl |
| 13 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 work | advmod |
| 15 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 16 giving | mark |
| 16 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 work | advcl |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 giving | compound:prt |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 breaking | cc |
| 19 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 giving | conj |
| 20 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 breaking | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 work | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | something | frustrating property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | gerund | a short break not said here | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | work | present | a short break | well property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | give up | gerund | a short break not said here | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | break | gerund | a short break not said here | things | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Patient |
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:094-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings.lesson:23.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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