How to check: who, how, who else, sentence 4
When something scares you or you cannot tell, show a trusted grown-up and wait before sharing; "not sure yet" is an honest answer.
Who acts: something, you · What happens: scare, not tell, show, wait, share, be · To what, where: you, grown, honest answer · 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, 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 scares | mark |
| 2 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 scares | nsubj |
| 3 | scares | scare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 show | advcl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 scares | obj |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 tell | cc |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 tell | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 tell | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 tell | advmod |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 scares | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 scares | punct |
| 11 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 up | det |
| 13 | trusted | trust | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 up | amod |
| 14 | grown | grow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 show | obj |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 up | punct |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 show | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wait | cc |
| 18 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 show | conj |
| 19 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 20 sharing | mark |
| 20 | sharing | share | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 wait | advcl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 sure | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 sure | punct |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 sure | advmod |
| 24 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sharing | parataxis |
| 25 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 24 sure | advmod |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 sure | punct |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 answer | cop |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 answer | det |
| 29 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 answer | amod |
| 30 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sure | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 show | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scare | present | something | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert | can | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | show | imperative | you not said here | grown | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent grow=Recipient up=Topic | ||||
| 4 | wait | infinitive | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | share | gerund | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | is a | present | you not said here | a honest answer | 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:4.
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 ×4, R6-punct-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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