Needles and brave faces, sentence 13
Stickers and praise help children remember the good part of a hard experience, and they deserve praise even if they were scared.
Who acts: Stickers, children · What happens: help, remember, deserve, be · To what, where: children, good part, praise
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 (Stickers, children), 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 | Stickers | sticker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 help | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 praise | cc |
| 3 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stickers | conj |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 help | obj |
| 6 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 help | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 part | det |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 part | amod |
| 9 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remember | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 experience | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 experience | det |
| 12 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 experience | amod |
| 13 | experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 part | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 deserve | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 deserve | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 deserve | nsubj |
| 17 | deserve | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | conj |
| 18 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 deserve | obj |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 23 scared | advmod |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 scared | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 scared | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 scared | cop |
| 23 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 deserve | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | Stickers and praise | children | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | remember | infinitive | children not said here | the good part of a hard experience | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent part=Theme | ||||
| 3 | deserve | present | children = child | praise | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | children = child | scared 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:medicine:032-needles-and-brave-faces.lesson:13.
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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