Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war and what-ifs, sentence 11
Children often hear bits of grown-up worries and imagine the worst; asking a parent usually helps, and money problems are a grown-up job to sort out.
Who acts: Children, asking, money problems · What happens: hear, grow up, imagine, ask, help, be · To what, where: bits, worst, parent, grown job
This is a sentence of the lesson «Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war and what-ifs» 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 (Children, asking, money problems), 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 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hear | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 hear | advmod |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hear | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 worries | case |
| 6 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 worries | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 up | punct |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 grown | compound:prt |
| 9 | worries | worry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bits | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 imagine | cc |
| 11 | imagine | imagine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 worst | det |
| 13 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 imagine | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 helps | punct |
| 15 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 helps | csubj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 parent | det |
| 17 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asking | obj |
| 18 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 19 helps | advmod |
| 19 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 job | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 job | cc |
| 22 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 problems | compound |
| 23 | problems | problem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 job | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 job | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 job | det |
| 26 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 job | amod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 up | punct |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 grown | compound:prt |
| 29 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 helps | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 sort | mark |
| 31 | sort | sort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 job | acl |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 sort | compound:prt |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | Children | bits of grown worries | often property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bit=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | grow up | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | imagine | present | Children not said here | the worst | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bad=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | gerund | a parent | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | help | present | asking | usually property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | grow up | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | is a | present | money problems | a grown job | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | sort out | to-infinitive | asking not said here | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: 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:008-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs.lesson:11.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R4-particle ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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