When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babies and big changes, sentence 14

Not knowing what will happen, for example about a job or a move, is hard; talking about it as a family helps more than guessing the worst.

Who acts: knowing · What happens: not know, happen, be, talk, help, guess · To what, where: family, worst · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babies and big changes» 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 (knowing), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 knowing	advmod
2	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 hard	csubj
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 happen	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knowing	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 example	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 example	case
8	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happen	obl
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 job	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 job	det
11	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happen	obl
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 move	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 move	det
14	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 job	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 knowing	punct
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 hard	cop
17	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 talking	punct
19	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 hard	advcl
20	about	about	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 talking	obl
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 helps	mark
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 family	det
24	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 talking	obl
25	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 talking	advcl
26	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 helps	advmod
27	than	than	SCONJ	_	28 guessing	mark
28	guessing	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 helps	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 worst	det
30	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 guessing	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 hard	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not know	gerund				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	happen	future			for example; about a job or a move	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about job=Location
3	is	present	knowing		hard property	tree rules
4	talk	gerund	knowing not said here	a family	about move	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
5	help	present	knowing not said here			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	guess	gerund	knowing not said here	the worst		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bad=Theme

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:014-when-home-feels-shaky-rows-hospitals-new-babies-and-big-changes.lesson:14.

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 ×2. 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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