Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean, sentence 11
Children sometimes see scary or grown-up things online by accident; it is not their fault, and telling a calm adult helps them understand it and set up safety filters.
Who acts: Children, accident, telling · What happens: see, grow up, not be, tell, help, understand · To what, where: scary things, fault, calm adult, Children, adult, safety filters · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean» 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 (Children, accident, telling), 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 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | _ | 3 see | advmod |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 things | amod |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 grown | cc |
| 6 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 scary | conj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 up | punct |
| 8 | up | up | PART | _ | 6 grown | compound:prt |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 see | obj |
| 10 | online | online | ADV | _ | 3 see | advmod |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 accident | case |
| 12 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 fault | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fault | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 fault | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 fault | advmod |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 fault | nmod:poss |
| 18 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 helps | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 telling | cc |
| 21 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 helps | csubj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 adult | det |
| 23 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 adult | amod |
| 24 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 telling | obj |
| 25 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | advcl |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 helps | obj |
| 27 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 helps | xcomp |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 understand | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 set | cc |
| 30 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 understand | conj |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 set | compound:prt |
| 32 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 filters | compound |
| 33 | filters | filter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 set | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | Children | scary things | by accident; online, sometimes property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | grow up | participle | Children not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not is a | present | accident | Children's fault | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | gerund | a calm adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | help | present | telling | Children = child | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | understand | infinitive | Children = child not said here | adult | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | set up | infinitive | Children = child not said here | safety filters | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient filter=Result |
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:016-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean.lesson:11.
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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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