Moving, new schools, change and grief, sentence 5
Asking questions and looking at pictures of a new place makes moving less scary.
Who acts: Asking · What happens: ask, look, make, move · To what, where: questions
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 (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 | VerbForm=Ger | 11 makes | csubj |
| 2 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Asking | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 looking | cc |
| 4 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Asking | conj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 pictures | case |
| 6 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 looking | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 place | amod |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pictures | nmod |
| 11 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 makes | obj |
| 13 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 scary | advmod |
| 14 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 makes | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 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 | questions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | look | gerund | at pictures of a new place | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at picture=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | present | Asking | scary property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | move | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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:097-moving-change-and-grief.lesson:5.
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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