Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that come back at night, sentence 10

Seeing a parent collapse is very scary; knowing how to call the emergency number and what to say helps children feel less helpless.

Who acts: Seeing, knowing, children · What happens: see, be, know, call, say, help · To what, where: parent collapse, emergency number, children · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that come back at night» 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 (Seeing, knowing, children), 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	Seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 scary	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 collapse	det
3	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 collapse	compound
4	collapse	collapse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Seeing	obj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 scary	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 scary	advmod
7	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 knowing	punct
9	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 helps	csubj
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 call	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 call	mark
12	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 knowing	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 number	det
14	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 number	compound
15	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 call	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 say	cc
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 say	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 say	mark
19	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 call	conj
20	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 scary	parataxis
21	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 helps	obj
22	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 helps	xcomp
23	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 helpless	advmod
24	helpless	helpless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 feel	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 scary	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	gerund		a parent collapse		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer collapse=Stimulus
2	is	present	Seeing		scary property	tree rules
3	know	gerund				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	call	to-infinitive		the emergency number		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent number=Recipient
5	say speech: assert	to-infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
6	help	present	knowing	children		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary clause=Theme
7	feel	infinitive	children not said here		helpless property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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:007-chased-trapped-frightened-scary-moments-that-come-back-at-night.lesson:10.

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): R8-pos-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.

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