Why we sleep when ill, sentence 14
Comfort from a parent, a cuddle or sleeping nearby, helps ill children feel safe, and needing it doesn't make you a baby.
Who acts: Comfort, ill children, needing · What happens: sleep, help, feel, need, not make · To what, where: Comfort, you
This is a sentence of the lesson «Why we sleep when ill» of the medicine 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 (Comfort, ill children, needing), 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 | Comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 helps | nsubj |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 parent | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 parent | det |
| 4 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Comfort | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cuddle | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cuddle | det |
| 7 | cuddle | cuddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Comfort | appos |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 sleeping | cc |
| 9 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 cuddle | conj |
| 10 | nearby | nearby | ADV | _ | 9 sleeping | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Comfort | punct |
| 12 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 children | amod |
| 14 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 feel | nsubj |
| 15 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 helps | xcomp |
| 16 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 feel | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 make | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 make | cc |
| 19 | needing | need | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 make | csubj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 needing | obj |
| 21 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 make | aux |
| 22 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 make | advmod |
| 23 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 helps | conj |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 make | obj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 baby | det |
| 26 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 make | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | gerund | Comfort from a parent not said here | nearby property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | help | present | Comfort from a parent | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | feel | infinitive | ill children | safe property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | need | gerund | Comfort | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not make | present · do-support | needing | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=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:medicine:031-why-we-sleep-when-ill.lesson:14.
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 ×3. 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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