Needles and brave faces, sentence 11

Telling a child «be a big boy» is meant to help, but it can make children feel they mustn't show feelings; boys can cry too.

Who acts: Telling, stress, children, boys · What happens: tell, be, mean, help, make, feel · To what, where: child, big boy, children, feelings · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (Telling, stress, children, boys), 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	11 meant	csubj:pass
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 child	det
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Telling	iobj
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 boy	punct
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 boy	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 boy	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boy	amod
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Telling	ccomp
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 boy	punct
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 meant	aux:pass
11	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 help	mark
13	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 meant	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 make	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 make	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 make	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 make	aux
18	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 meant	conj
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 make	obj
20	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 make	xcomp
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 show	nsubj
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 show	aux
23	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 show	advmod
24	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 feel	ccomp
25	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 show	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 cry	punct
27	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 cry	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 cry	aux
29	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 meant	conj
30	too	too	ADV	_	29 cry	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 meant	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund			a child	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient
2	is a in a quote	infinitive		a big boy		tree rules
3	mean	present · passive	Telling			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: clause=Topic
4	help not said to happen	to-infinitive	Telling not said here			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	make	can	stress	children		tree rules
6	feel	infinitive	children not said here			vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	not show	must	children = child	feelings		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent feeling=Recipient
8	cry speech: express	can	boys			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:11.

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): R3-conj-first ×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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