Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that come back at night, sentence 5
Knowing what to do next time, like the family fire plan or the emergency number, turns "I was helpless" into "I'd know what to do", and that is one of the best ways to quieten a scary memory.
Who acts: Knowing, Kai, that · What happens: know, do, turn, be, quieten · To what, where: one, scary memory · 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 (Knowing, Kai, that), 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 | Knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 turns | csubj |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 do | mark |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Knowing | ccomp |
| 5 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 plan | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 plan | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 plan | det |
| 10 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 plan | compound |
| 11 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 plan | compound |
| 12 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Knowing | obl |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 number | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 number | det |
| 15 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 number | compound |
| 16 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 plan | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 turns | punct |
| 18 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 helpless | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 helpless | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 helpless | cop |
| 22 | helpless | helpless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 turns | ccomp |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 helpless | punct |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 know | mark |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 know | punct |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 know | nsubj |
| 27 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 know | aux |
| 28 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 turns | obl |
| 29 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 31 do | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 do | mark |
| 31 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 know | ccomp |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 know | punct |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 one | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 one | cc |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 one | nsubj |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 one | cop |
| 37 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 turns | conj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 ways | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 ways | det |
| 40 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 41 ways | amod |
| 41 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 one | nmod |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 quieten | mark |
| 43 | quieten | quieten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 ways | acl |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 memory | det |
| 45 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 memory | amod |
| 46 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 quieten | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 turns | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | gerund | like the family fire plan or the emergency number | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | time | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | turn | present | Knowing | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | Kai | helpless property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | know in a quote | would | Kai | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||||
| 7 | is a | present | that | one | of the best ways | tree rules | |||
| 8 | quieten | to-infinitive | that not said here | a scary memory | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent memory=Patient |
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: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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4, 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.
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