Moving, new schools, change and grief, sentence 17

Telling a young child that someone «went to sleep» can confuse them and make them scared of sleep, so clear words like «died» are kinder.

Who acts: someone, Telling, clear words · What happens: tell, go, sleep, confuse, make, die · To what, where: young child, family · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Moving, new schools, change and grief» 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 (someone, Telling, clear words), 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	Telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 confuse	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 child	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 child	amod
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Telling	obj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 went	mark
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 went	nsubj
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Telling	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 sleep	mark
10	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 went	advcl
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 confuse	aux
13	confuse	confuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 kinder	parataxis
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 confuse	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 make	cc
16	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 confuse	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 make	obj
18	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 make	xcomp
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 sleep	case
20	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 scared	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 words	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 clear	advmod
23	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 words	amod
24	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 kinder	nsubj
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 died	case
26	«	«	PUNCT	_	27 died	punct
27	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 words	nmod
28	»	»	PUNCT	_	27 died	punct
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 kinder	cop
30	kinder	kind	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 confuse	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund			a young child		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go in a quote	past	someone				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sleep in a quote	to-infinitive	someone not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	confuse	can	Telling	family			vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	make	infinitive	Telling not said here	family		scared property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product
6	die in a quote	past					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
7	is	present	clear words			kind property	tree rules

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:097-moving-change-and-grief.lesson:17.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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