Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics, sentence 11
Grown-ups feel sad when they see people suffering, even far away; this is empathy, and it is all right to ask what made them sad.
Who acts: Grown ups, ups, people, this · What happens: grow, feel, see, suffer, be, ask · To what, where: people, empathy, ups · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics» of the politics 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 (Grown ups, ups, people, this), 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 | Grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ups | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Grown | punct |
| 3 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 feel | nsubj |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feel | xcomp |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 see | nsubj |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 feel | advcl |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 see | obj |
| 10 | suffering | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 people | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 far | punct |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 far | advmod |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 away | advmod |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 suffering | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 empathy | punct |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 empathy | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 empathy | cop |
| 18 | empathy | empathy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feel | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 right | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 right | cc |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 right | expl |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 right | cop |
| 23 | all | all | ADV | _ | 24 right | advmod |
| 24 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feel | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 ask | mark |
| 26 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 right | csubj |
| 27 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 28 made | nsubj |
| 28 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 ask | ccomp |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 made | obj |
| 30 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 made | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | feel | present | Grown ups | sad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | see | present | ups = up | people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | suffer | gerund | people not said here | away property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | this | empathy | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | present | Grown ups not said here | all, right property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 8 | make | past | ups = up | sad property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=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:politics:014-dad-shouting-at-the-tv-big-feelings-about-politics.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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