Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics, sentence 17

Big problems like wars are not a child's responsibility; kids can help in small ways, like being kind, learning or giving to a charity with a grown-up.

Who acts: Big problems, kids · What happens: not be, help, be, learn, give · To what, where: responsibility, small ways, charity

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 (Big problems, kids), 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	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 problems	amod
2	problems	problem	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 responsibility	nsubj
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 wars	case
4	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 problems	nmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 responsibility	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 responsibility	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 responsibility	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 child	case
10	responsibility	responsibility	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 help	punct
12	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 help	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 help	aux
14	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 responsibility	parataxis
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 ways	case
16	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ways	amod
17	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 help	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 kind	punct
19	like	like	SCONJ	_	21 kind	mark
20	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 kind	cop
21	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 help	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 learning	punct
23	learning	learn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 help	advcl
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 giving	cc
25	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 learning	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 charity	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 charity	det
28	charity	charity	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 giving	obl
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 grown	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 up	det
31	grown	grow	NOUN	_	28 charity	nmod
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 up	punct
33	up	up	ADP	_	31 grown	compound
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 responsibility	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	Big problems like wars	a child's responsibility				tree rules
2	help	can	kids			small ways		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	is	gerund	kids not said here				kind property	tree rules
4	learn	gerund	kids not said here					vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	give	gerund	kids not said here		a charity with grown			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to charity=Recipient

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:17.

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 ×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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