Getting through it: who helps, what helps, and looking back, sentence 15

Anyone can need help; laughing at someone for seeing a counsellor is unkind, and the one laughing may need help one day too.

Who acts: Anyone, laughing, one · What happens: need, laugh, see, be · To what, where: help, someone, counsellor

This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting through it: who helps, what helps, and looking back» 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 (Anyone, laughing, one), 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	Anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 need	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 need	aux
3	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 need	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 laughing	punct
6	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 unkind	csubj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 someone	case
8	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 laughing	obl
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 seeing	mark
10	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 laughing	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 counsellor	det
12	counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seeing	obj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 unkind	cop
14	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 need	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 need	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 need	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 one	det
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 need	nsubj
19	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 one	acl
20	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 need	aux
21	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 unkind	conj
22	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 need	obj
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 day	nummod
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 need	obl:unmarked
25	too	too	ADV	_	21 need	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 need	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	can	Anyone	help				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme
2	laugh	gerund			someone			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see	gerund		a counsellor				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer counsellor=Stimulus
4	is	present	laughing				unkind property	tree rules
5	laugh	gerund	the one not said here					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	need	may	the one	help		day		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=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:030-getting-through-it-who-helps-what-helps-and-looking-back.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): R2-punct-next ×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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