Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war and what-ifs, sentence 13

Seeing violence is upsetting even if you were not involved; the brain replays it to try to understand, and talking about it helps it fade.

Who acts: Seeing, you, brain, talking · What happens: see, be, not be, replay, try, understand · To what, where: violence

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 (Seeing, you, brain, talking), 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	Seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 upsetting	csubj
2	violence	violence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Seeing	obj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 upsetting	cop
4	upsetting	upsetting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	even	even	ADV	_	10 involved	advmod
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 involved	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 involved	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 involved	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 involved	advmod
10	involved	involved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 upsetting	advcl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 replays	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 brain	det
13	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 replays	nsubj
14	replays	replay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 involved	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 replays	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 try	mark
17	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 replays	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 understand	mark
19	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 try	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 helps	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 helps	cc
22	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 helps	csubj
23	about	about	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 talking	obl
25	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 replays	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 fade	nsubj
27	fade	fade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 helps	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 upsetting	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	gerund		violence		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer violence=Stimulus
2	is	present	Seeing		upsetting property	tree rules
3	not is a condition, not said to happen	past	you		involved property	tree rules
4	replay	present	the brain	violence		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	try	to-infinitive	the brain not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	understand not said to happen	to-infinitive	the brain not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	talk	gerund			about brain	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
8	help	present	talking			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
9	fade	infinitive	brain			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:008-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs.lesson:13.

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 ×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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