Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries and big questions, sentence 8

When a young person dies, the world can suddenly feel unsafe; the fear is usually big at first and shrinks with time, and most children grow up safe.

Who acts: young person, world, fear, most children · What happens: die, feel, be, shrink, grow up

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 (young person, world, fear, most children), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 dies	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 person	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 person	amod
4	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dies	nsubj
5	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 feel	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dies	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 world	det
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 feel	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 feel	aux
10	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	11 feel	advmod
11	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	unsafe	unsafe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 feel	xcomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 big	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fear	det
15	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 big	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 big	cop
17	usually	usually	ADV	_	18 big	advmod
18	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 feel	parataxis
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 first	case
20	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 big	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 shrinks	cc
22	shrinks	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 feel	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 time	case
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shrinks	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 grow	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 grow	cc
27	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 children	amod
28	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 grow	nsubj
29	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 feel	parataxis
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 grow	compound:prt
31	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 grow	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 feel	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	a young person			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	feel	can	the world		suddenly, unsafe property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	present	the fear		big, usually property	tree rules
4	shrink	present	the world not said here	time		vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	grow up	present	most children		safe property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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:8.

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): 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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