Getting through it: who helps, what helps, and looking back, sentence 5
Being "resilient" does not mean never being knocked down; it means getting back up, usually with help, one day at a time, and being the bit of help for someone else when it's their turn.
Who acts: Being, resilient · What happens: be, not mean, not knock down, mean, get back · To what, where: resilient, bit, turn · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Being, resilient), 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 | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 mean | csubj |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 resilient | punct |
| 3 | resilient | resilient | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Being | xcomp |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 resilient | punct |
| 5 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 mean | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 mean | advmod |
| 7 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 knocked | advmod |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 knocked | aux:pass |
| 10 | knocked | knock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 mean | xcomp |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 knocked | compound:prt |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 means | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 means | nsubj |
| 14 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 mean | parataxis |
| 15 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 means | ccomp |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 up | advmod |
| 17 | up | up | ADV | _ | 15 getting | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 help | punct |
| 19 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 21 help | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 help | case |
| 21 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 getting | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 day | punct |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 day | nummod |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 getting | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 time | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 time | det |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 day | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 bit | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 bit | cc |
| 30 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 bit | cop |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 bit | det |
| 32 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 getting | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 help | case |
| 34 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bit | nmod |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 someone | case |
| 36 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 34 help | nmod |
| 37 | else | else | ADV | _ | 36 someone | advmod |
| 38 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 42 turn | advmod |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 turn | nsubj |
| 40 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 turn | cop |
| 41 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 turn | nmod:poss |
| 42 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bit | advcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | gerund | resilient | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not mean | present · do-support | Being | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not knock down not said to happen | gerund · passive | Being not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart» | |||||
| 4 | mean | present | resilient | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | get back | gerund | day | with help | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | is a | gerund | the bit | of help for someone | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is a | present | resilient | things's turn | 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:030-getting-through-it-who-helps-what-helps-and-looking-back.lesson:5.
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, R5-strong ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/30-getting-through-it-who-helps-what-helps-and-looking-back/5/