Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries and big questions, sentence 13

Many children start thinking about death around nine or ten; it can be scary, talking about it helps, and most people live a very long time.

Who acts: Many children, death, most people · What happens: start, think, be, talk, help, live · To what, where: nine

This is a sentence of the lesson «Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries and big questions» 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 (Many children, death, most people), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 children	amod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 start	nsubj
3	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 start	xcomp
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 death	case
6	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thinking	obl
7	around	around	ADP	_	8 nine	case
8	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 thinking	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 ten	cc
10	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 nine	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 scary	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 scary	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 scary	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 scary	cop
15	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 start	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 talking	punct
17	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 helps	nsubj
18	about	about	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 talking	obl
20	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 scary	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 live	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 live	cc
23	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 people	amod
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 live	nsubj
25	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 scary	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 time	det
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 long	advmod
28	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 time	amod
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 live	obl:unmarked
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 start	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	present	Many children				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	think speech: other	gerund	Many children not said here	nine		about death	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about death=Topic
3	is	can	death			scary property	tree rules
4	talk	gerund				about death	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
5	help	present					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	live	present	most people		time		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:002-grief-has-no-timetable-houses-anniversaries-and-big-questions.lesson:13.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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