Bitten, lost, hurt: when fear stays after the danger, sentence 16

Sometimes people act scary in public because they are ill, drunk or upset; the right thing is to move away and tell a grown-up.

Who acts: people, right thing · What happens: act, be, tell · To what, where: public, grown · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bitten, lost, hurt: when fear stays after the danger» 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 (people, right thing), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	_	3 act	advmod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 act	nsubj
3	act	act	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 act	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 public	case
6	public	public	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 act	obl
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 ill	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ill	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 ill	cop
10	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 act	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 drunk	punct
12	drunk	drunk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ill	conj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 upset	cc
14	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ill	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 move	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 thing	det
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 thing	amod
18	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 move	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 move	cop
20	to	to	PART	_	21 move	mark
21	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 act	parataxis
22	away	away	ADV	_	21 move	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 tell	cc
24	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 move	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 up	det
26	grown	grow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tell	obj
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 up	punct
28	up	up	ADP	_	26 grown	compound
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 act	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	act	present	people		public	scary, sometimes property	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	people			ill property	tree rules
3	be		people not said here				tree rules
4	be		people not said here				tree rules
5	is	present	the right thing			away, move property	tree rules
6	tell speech: assert	infinitive	the right thing not said here	grown			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grow=Recipient

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:006-bitten-lost-hurt-when-fear-stays-after-the-danger.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): R5-strong ×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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