When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babies and big changes, sentence 9

Long hospital stays are scary for families; children need honest answers and someone to talk to, and imagining the worst alone makes it harder.

Who acts: Long hospital stays, children, imagining · What happens: be, need, talk, imagine, make · To what, where: honest answers, worst

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 (Long hospital stays, children, imagining), 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	Long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stays	amod
2	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stays	compound
3	stays	stay	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 scary	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 scary	cop
5	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 families	case
7	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 scary	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 need	punct
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 need	nsubj
10	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 scary	parataxis
11	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 answers	amod
12	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 need	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 someone	cc
14	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 answers	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 talk	mark
16	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 someone	acl
17	to	to	ADP	_	16 talk	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 makes	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 makes	cc
20	imagining	imagine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 makes	csubj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 worst	det
22	worst	bad	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 imagining	obj
23	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 worst	fixed
24	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 scary	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 makes	obj
26	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 makes	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 scary	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Long hospital stays		for families; scary property	tree rules
2	need	present	children	honest answers		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot answer=Theme
3	talk	to-infinitive	children not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	imagine	gerund		the worst		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bad=Theme
5	make	present	imagining	worst = bad	hard property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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:9.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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