Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss that isn't death, sentence 8

Being scared of how an ill parent looks does not make a child mean; asking questions usually helps more than pretending not to notice.

Who acts: ill parent, child, asking · What happens: be, look, not make, not mean, ask, help · To what, where: child, questions, more

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 (ill parent, child, asking), 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 scared	cop
2	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 make	csubj
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 looks	mark
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 looks	advmod
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 parent	det
6	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 parent	amod
7	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looks	nsubj
8	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 scared	ccomp
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 make	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 make	advmod
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 child	det
13	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	obj
14	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 make	xcomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 helps	punct
16	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 helps	csubj
17	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 asking	obj
18	usually	usually	ADV	_	19 helps	advmod
19	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 make	parataxis
20	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 helps	obj
21	than	than	SCONJ	_	22 pretending	mark
22	pretending	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 more	acl
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 notice	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 notice	mark
25	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 pretending	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 make	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	gerund			scared property	tree rules
2	look	present	a ill parent			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	not make	present · do-support		a child		tree rules
4	not mean	infinitive	a child not said here			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	ask speech: ask	gerund		questions		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
6	help	present	asking	more	usually property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Beneficiary
7	pretend	gerund				tree rules
8	not notice	to-infinitive				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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: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, 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.

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