Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not your fault, sentence 4
What helped was telling Mum she had heard, and Mum saying clearly, "It's not your fault"; she still felt worried when voices rose, but she knew it wasn't her job to fix it.
Who acts: Maisie, job, voices · What happens: help, be, hear, say, not be, feel · To what, where: fault, job · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not your fault» of the reflection 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 (Maisie, job, voices), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 helped | nsubj |
| 2 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 telling | csubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 telling | cop |
| 4 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 telling | obj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 heard | aux |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 telling | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Mum | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Mum | cc |
| 11 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Mum | conj |
| 12 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 telling | conj |
| 13 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 12 saying | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Mum | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 fault | punct |
| 16 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fault | nsubj |
| 17 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 fault | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 fault | advmod |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 fault | nmod:poss |
| 20 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saying | ccomp |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 fault | punct |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 felt | punct |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 felt | nsubj |
| 24 | still | still | ADV | _ | 25 felt | advmod |
| 25 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 telling | parataxis |
| 26 | worried | worried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 felt | xcomp |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 rose | advmod |
| 28 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 rose | nsubj |
| 29 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 felt | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 knew | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 knew | cc |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 knew | nsubj |
| 33 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 felt | conj |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 job | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 job | cop |
| 36 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 job | advmod |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 job | nmod:poss |
| 38 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 knew | ccomp |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 fix | mark |
| 40 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 job | acl |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 fix | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 telling | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | past | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | be speech: assert | past | tell property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hear | past · perfect | Maisie | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | clearly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not is a in a quote | present | job | your fault | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | feel | past | Maisie | still | worried property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | rise | past | voices | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | know | past | Maisie | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 9 | not is a | past | job | Maisie's job | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | fix | to-infinitive | Maisie not said here | job | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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:reflection:012-parents-shouting-parents-splitting-it-s-not-your-fault.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 ×1, 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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