Needles and brave faces, sentence 10
Crying is a natural way to show fear or pain and let out stress, and dentists and nurses see it every day.
What happens: cry, be, show, let out, see · To what, where: natural way, fear, stress
This is a sentence of the lesson «Needles and brave faces» 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: 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 | Crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 see | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 4 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 way | amod |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 show | mark |
| 7 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 way | acl |
| 8 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 show | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 pain | cc |
| 10 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fear | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 let | cc |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 show | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 let | compound:prt |
| 14 | stress | stress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 let | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 see | cc |
| 17 | dentists | dentist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 see | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 nurses | cc |
| 19 | nurses | nurse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 dentists | conj |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 see | obj |
| 22 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 day | det |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 see | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | a natural way | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | show | to-infinitive | fear or pain | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fear=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | let out | infinitive | stress | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stress=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see | present | stress | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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:032-needles-and-brave-faces.lesson:10.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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