Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that come back at night, sentence 8

After a fire the brain can stay on alert; making a family fire plan and testing the smoke alarm together help the fear come down.

Who acts: brain, making, fear · What happens: stay, make, test, help, come down · To what, where: alert, fire plan, smoke alarm

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 (brain, making, fear), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 fire	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fire	det
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stay	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brain	det
5	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stay	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 stay	aux
7	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 alert	case
9	alert	alert	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stay	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 making	punct
11	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 help	csubj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 plan	det
13	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fire	compound
14	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 plan	compound
15	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 making	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 testing	cc
17	testing	test	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 making	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 alarm	det
19	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 alarm	compound
20	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 testing	obj
21	together	together	ADV	_	17 testing	advmod
22	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 stay	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fear	det
24	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 come	nsubj
25	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 help	xcomp
26	down	down	ADV	_	25 come	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stay	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	can	the brain		alert	after a fire		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on alert=Location
2	make	gerund		a fire plan				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset plan=Product
3	test	gerund		the smoke alarm			together property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alarm=Theme
4	help	infinitive	making					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	come down	infinitive	the fear				down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:8.

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, 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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