Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness, sentence 17

Phones can steal attention without people noticing; saying it out loud, for example asking for phone-free dinners, often helps.

Who acts: Phones, people, example, saying · What happens: steal, notice, say, ask, help · To what, where: attention · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness» 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 (Phones, people, example, saying), 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	Phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 steal	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 steal	aux
3	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 steal	obj
5	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 noticing	mark
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 noticing	nsubj
7	noticing	notice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 steal	advcl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 saying	punct
9	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 helps	csubj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saying	obj
11	out	out	ADV	_	12 loud	advmod
12	loud	loud	ADV	_	9 saying	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 loud	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 example	case
15	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 helps	obl
16	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 example	acl
17	for	for	ADP	_	21 dinners	case
18	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 free	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 phone	punct
20	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 dinners	amod
21	dinners	dinner	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 asking	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 example	punct
23	often	often	ADV	_	24 helps	advmod
24	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 steal	parataxis
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 steal	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	steal	can	Phones	attention		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location attention=Theme
2	notice	gerund	people			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	gerund		attention	loud property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	ask speech: ask	gerund	example not said here		for free dinners	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	help	present	saying		for example; often property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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:013-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness.lesson:17.

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. 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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