Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that come back at night, sentence 7
Grown-ups can do things a child can't, like talking to a school, other parents or the police, so a threat should be told to a trusted adult the same day.
Who acts: Grown ups · What happens: grow, do, talk, tell, trust · To what, where: things, threat, trusted adult · 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 (Grown ups), 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 | Grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ups | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Grown | punct |
| 3 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 do | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 child | det |
| 8 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ca | nsubj |
| 9 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 things | acl:relcl |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 ca | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 n't | punct |
| 12 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 13 talking | mark |
| 13 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 ca | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 school | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 school | det |
| 16 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 talking | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 parents | punct |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 parents | amod |
| 19 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 school | conj |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 police | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 police | det |
| 22 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 parents | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 told | punct |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 told | advmod |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 threat | det |
| 26 | threat | threat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 told | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 told | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 told | aux:pass |
| 29 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 talking | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 adult | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 adult | det |
| 32 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 adult | amod |
| 33 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 told | obl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 day | det |
| 35 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 day | amod |
| 36 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 told | obl:unmarked |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | do | can | Grown ups | things | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | talk | gerund | Grown ups not said here | to a school and other parents or the police | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to school=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | should · passive | a threat | a trusted adult | day | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to adult=Recipient | |||
| 5 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: 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:007-chased-trapped-frightened-scary-moments-that-come-back-at-night.lesson:7.
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): R7-rel-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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