Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics, sentence 6
When news makes you scared or sad, the best tools are small ones: say the worry out loud to a grown-up you trust, ask them to explain, take a news break, and do one small kind thing.
Who acts: news, best tools, you · What happens: make, be, say out, grow, trust, ask · To what, where: you, small ones, worry, grown up, tools, news break
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 (news, best tools, you), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 makes | advmod |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 ones | advcl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 makes | obj |
| 5 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 makes | xcomp |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 sad | cc |
| 7 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 scared | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ones | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tools | det |
| 10 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 tools | amod |
| 11 | tools | tool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ones | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 ones | cop |
| 13 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ones | amod |
| 14 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 say | punct |
| 16 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 ones | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 worry | det |
| 18 | worry | worry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 say | obj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 say | compound:prt |
| 20 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 16 say | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 up | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 up | det |
| 23 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 up | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 up | punct |
| 25 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 say | obl |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 trust | nsubj |
| 27 | trust | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 up | acl:relcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 ask | punct |
| 29 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 say | conj |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 ask | iobj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 explain | mark |
| 32 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 ask | xcomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 take | punct |
| 34 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 explain | xcomp |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 break | det |
| 36 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 break | compound |
| 37 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 take | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 do | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 do | cc |
| 40 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 take | conj |
| 41 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 44 thing | nummod |
| 42 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 thing | amod |
| 43 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 thing | compound |
| 44 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 do | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 ones | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | news | you | scared property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the best tools | small ones | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say out speech: assert | infinitive | the worry | a grown up | loud property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent worry=Topic to up=Recipient | |||
| 4 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | trust | present | you | a grown up not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent up=Theme | ||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | tools = tool | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | explain speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 8 | take | infinitive | a news break | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent break=Theme | |||||
| 9 | do | infinitive | one small kind thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
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:6.
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): 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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