Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss that isn't death, sentence 15

Being angry at a brother or sister for something they cannot help, like an allergy, is normal, but it is not fair to them.

Who acts: brother, allergy · What happens: be, not help, not be · To what, where: brother

This is a sentence of the lesson «Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss that isn't death» 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 (brother, allergy), 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	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 angry	cop
2	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 normal	csubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 brother	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 brother	det
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 angry	obl
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 sister	cc
7	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brother	conj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 something	case
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 sister	nmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 help	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 help	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 help	advmod
13	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 something	acl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 normal	punct
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 allergy	case
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 allergy	det
17	allergy	allergy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 normal	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 allergy	punct
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 normal	cop
20	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fair	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 fair	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 fair	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 fair	cop
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 fair	advmod
26	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 normal	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 fair	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 normal	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	gerund			at a brother or sister for something; angry property	tree rules
2	not help	can	brother			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	is	present			like a allergy; normal property	tree rules
4	not is	present	allergy	brother	fair 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:003-living-with-loss-keeping-memories-and-loss-that-isn-t-death.lesson:15.

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): no change. 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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