When it was my fault: owning up and making it right, sentence 11

Fear can make people quit; saying "I was too scared" is braver than pretending to be ill, and telling someone early gives them time to help.

Who acts: Fear, people, I, saying, someone · What happens: make, quit, say, be, pretend, tell · To what, where: people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «When it was my fault: owning up and making it right» 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 (Fear, people, I, saying), 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	Fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj
5	quit	quit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 make	xcomp
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 braver	punct
7	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 braver	csubj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 scared	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 scared	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 scared	cop
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 scared	advmod
12	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 saying	ccomp
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 scared	punct
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 braver	cop
15	braver	braver	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 make	conj
16	than	than	SCONJ	_	17 pretending	mark
17	pretending	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 braver	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	20 ill	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 ill	cop
20	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 pretending	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 gives	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 gives	cc
23	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 gives	csubj
24	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 gives	nsubj
25	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 telling	advmod
26	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 braver	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gives	iobj
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gives	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 help	mark
30	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 time	acl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	can	Fear	people				tree rules
2	quit	infinitive	people not said here					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	gerund						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	past	I				scared property	tree rules
5	is	present	saying				braver property	tree rules
6	pretend	gerund	saying not said here					tree rules
7	is	to-infinitive	saying not said here				ill property	tree rules
8	tell speech: assert	gerund					early property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	give	present	someone		people	time		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
10	help	to-infinitive	someone not said here					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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:005-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right.lesson:11.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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