Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss that isn't death, sentence 16

Comforting phrases like "she's watching over you" can sometimes make a child worry, and it is fine to ask what grown-ups mean.

Who acts: body, Comforting phrases, grown ups · What happens: watch, make, be, ask, grow, mean · To what, where: Comforting phrases, child worry · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (body, Comforting phrases, grown ups), 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	Comforting	comforting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 phrases	amod
2	phrases	phrase	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 make	nsubj
3	like	like	ADP	_	7 watching	mark
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 watching	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 watching	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 watching	aux
7	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 phrases	acl
8	over	over	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 watching	obl
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 watching	punct
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 make	aux
12	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 make	advmod
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 worry	det
15	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 worry	compound
16	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 make	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fine	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 fine	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fine	expl
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 fine	cop
21	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 make	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 ask	mark
23	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 fine	csubj
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 mean	obj
25	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 ups	amod
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 ups	punct
27	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 mean	nsubj
28	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 ask	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	watch in a quote	present · progressive	body	Comforting phrases not said here	over you	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phrase=Theme
2	make	can	Comforting phrases	a child worry	sometimes property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset worry=Product
3	is	present	Comforting phrases not said here		fine property	tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	mean	present	grown ups			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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:16.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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