How to check: who, how, who else, sentence 11
When something online is scary or upsetting, showing a trusted adult is a good step, and it is fine to say "I don't know if this is true".
Who acts: something online, showing, I, this · What happens: be, show, trust, say, not know · To what, where: trusted adult, good step · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «How to check: who, how, who else» 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 (something online, showing, I, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 scary | advmod |
| 2 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 online | compound |
| 3 | online | online | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scary | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 scary | cop |
| 5 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 upsetting | cc |
| 7 | upsetting | upsetting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 scary | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 showing | punct |
| 9 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 step | csubj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 adult | det |
| 11 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 adult | amod |
| 12 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 showing | obj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 step | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 step | det |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 step | amod |
| 16 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scary | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fine | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fine | cc |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fine | expl |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 fine | cop |
| 21 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 step | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 say | mark |
| 23 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 fine | csubj |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 know | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 know | nsubj |
| 26 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 know | aux |
| 27 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 know | advmod |
| 28 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 say | ccomp |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 true | mark |
| 30 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 true | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 true | cop |
| 32 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 know | ccomp |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 true | punct |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 step | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | something online | scary property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | something online not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | show | gerund | a trusted adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is a | present | showing | a good step | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | present | showing not said here | fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 8 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 9 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | this | true property | tree rules |
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:035-how-to-check-who-how-who-else.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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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