Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war and what-ifs, sentence 12
Big waves are scary, but boats are built to handle rough ("choppy") water; seasickness makes fear feel worse.
Who acts: Big waves, seasickness, fear · What happens: be, build, handle, make, feel · To what, where: boats, rough choppy water, fear
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 (Big waves, seasickness, 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 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 waves | amod |
| 2 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 scary | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 scary | cop |
| 4 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 built | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 built | cc |
| 7 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 built | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 built | aux:pass |
| 9 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 scary | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 handle | mark |
| 11 | handle | handle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 built | advcl |
| 12 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 water | amod |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 choppy | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 choppy | punct |
| 15 | choppy | choppy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 water | amod |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 choppy | punct |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 choppy | punct |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 handle | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 makes | punct |
| 20 | seasickness | seasickness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 makes | nsubj |
| 21 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 scary | parataxis |
| 22 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 makes | obj |
| 23 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 makes | xcomp |
| 24 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 feel | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 scary | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Big waves | scary property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | build | present · passive | boats | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 3 | handle | to-infinitive | rough choppy water | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | |||||
| 4 | make | present | seasickness | fear | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | feel | infinitive | fear not said here | bad 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:008-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs.lesson:12.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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