Needles and brave faces, sentence 14
Little children screaming at jabs aren't being naughty, and a calm older brother or sister holding their hand can really help.
Who acts: Little children, calm older brother · What happens: scream, not be, hold, help · To what, where: jabs, hand
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 (Little children, calm older brother), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 children | amod |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 naughty | nsubj |
| 3 | screaming | scream | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 children | acl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 jabs | case |
| 5 | jabs | jab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 screaming | obl |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 naughty | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 naughty | advmod |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 naughty | cop |
| 9 | naughty | naughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 help | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 help | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 brother | det |
| 13 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 brother | amod |
| 14 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 brother | amod |
| 15 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 help | nsubj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 sister | cc |
| 17 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brother | conj |
| 18 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 brother | acl |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hand | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 holding | obj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 help | aux |
| 22 | really | really | ADV | _ | 23 help | advmod |
| 23 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 naughty | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 naughty | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express | gerund | Little children not said here | jabs | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at jab=Location | ||||
| 2 | not is | present · progressive | Little children | naughty property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hold | gerund | a calm older brother or sister not said here | children's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 4 | help | can | a calm older brother or sister | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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: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): R5-strong ×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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