When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babies and big changes, sentence 6
If home ever feels scary, like a parent throwing things in a temper, tell a trusted adult; it is not telling tales, it is how families get help.
Who acts: home, parent, you · What happens: feel, throw, tell, trust, not tell, be · To what, where: things, temper, trusted adult, tales · 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 (home, parent, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 feels | mark |
| 2 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feels | nsubj |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 feels | advmod |
| 4 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 tell | advcl |
| 5 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feels | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 throwing | punct |
| 7 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 10 throwing | mark |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 parent | det |
| 9 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 throwing | nsubj |
| 10 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 feels | advcl |
| 11 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 throwing | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 temper | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 temper | det |
| 14 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 throwing | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 feels | punct |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 adult | det |
| 18 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 adult | amod |
| 19 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tell | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 telling | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 telling | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 telling | advmod |
| 24 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 tell | ccomp |
| 25 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 telling | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 get | punct |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 get | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 get | cop |
| 29 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 get | advmod |
| 30 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 get | nsubj |
| 31 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 telling | parataxis |
| 32 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 get | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel a condition, not said to happen | present | home | ever | scary property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | throw | gerund | a parent | things | a temper | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent thing=Theme in temper=Destination | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | a trusted adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | not tell speech: assert | present · progressive | Home | tales | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | is | present | Home | get property | 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:014-when-home-feels-shaky-rows-hospitals-new-babies-and-big-changes.lesson:6.
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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