Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics, sentence 18

Asking a grown-up to explain the news makes it less confusing; grown-ups' feelings usually come from their values, like fairness or safety.

Who acts: Asking, feelings · What happens: ask, explain, make, come, value · To what, where: grown up, news, values

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 (Asking, feelings), 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	Asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 makes	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 up	det
3	grown	grown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 up	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 up	punct
5	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Asking	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 explain	mark
7	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Asking	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 news	det
9	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 explain	obj
10	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 makes	obj
12	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 confusing	advmod
13	confusing	confusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 makes	xcomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
15	grown	grown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ups	amod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 ups	punct
17	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 feelings	nmod:poss
18	'	's	PART	_	17 ups	case
19	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 come	nsubj
20	usually	usually	ADV	_	21 come	advmod
21	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 makes	parataxis
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 values	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 values	nmod:poss
24	values	value	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 come	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fairness	punct
26	like	like	ADP	_	27 fairness	case
27	fairness	fairness	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 values	nmod
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 safety	cc
29	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fairness	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 makes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund		a grown up			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient
2	explain speech: assert	to-infinitive		the news			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Topic
3	make	present	Asking	news		confusing property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
4	come	present	grown ups's feelings		feelings's values like fairness or safety	usually property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from value=Initial_Location
5	value		feelings = feeling			like fairness or safety	nom value «cognition transitive»: poss=agent like=obl

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:18.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, 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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