Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness, sentence 8

A silent house, with "the silent treatment" and tension, can be as stressful as shouting; children often try to fix the mood, but it is not their job.

Who acts: silent house, children, house · What happens: be, shout, try, fix, not be · To what, where: mood, job

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 (silent house, children, house), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 house	det
2	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 house	amod
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stressful	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 treatment	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	9 treatment	case
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 treatment	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 treatment	det
8	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 treatment	amod
9	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 house	nmod
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 treatment	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tension	cc
12	tension	tension	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 treatment	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 house	punct
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 stressful	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 stressful	cop
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 stressful	advmod
17	stressful	stressful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 shouting	mark
19	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 stressful	advcl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 try	punct
21	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 try	nsubj
22	often	often	ADV	_	23 try	advmod
23	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 stressful	parataxis
24	to	to	PART	_	25 fix	mark
25	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 try	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 mood	det
27	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fix	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 job	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 job	cc
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 job	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 job	cop
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 job	advmod
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 job	nmod:poss
34	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stressful	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 stressful	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	can	a silent house with the silent treatment and tension		stressful property	tree rules
2	shout speech: express	gerund	a silent house with the silent treatment and tension not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	try	present	children		often property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	fix not said to happen	to-infinitive	children not said here	the mood		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent mood=Patient
5	not is a	present	house	treatment's job		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:reflection:013-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness.lesson:8.

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): R8-pos-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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