Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war and what-ifs, sentence 16

Dentists sometimes cause a little pain to stop much worse pain later; telling the dentist you're scared, and agreeing a stop signal, helps.

Who acts: Dentists, you, telling · What happens: cause, stop, tell, be, agree, help · To what, where: little pain, worse pain, dentist, stop signal · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Dentists, you, telling), 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	Dentists	dentist	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cause	nsubj
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 cause	advmod
3	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 helps	parataxis
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pain	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pain	amod
6	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cause	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 stop	mark
8	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cause	advcl
9	much	much	ADV	_	10 worse	advmod
10	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 pain	amod
11	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stop	obj
12	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 stop	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 helps	punct
14	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 helps	csubj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dentist	det
16	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 telling	iobj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 scared	nsubj
18	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 scared	cop
19	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 telling	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 agreeing	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 agreeing	cc
22	agreeing	agree	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 telling	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 signal	det
24	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 signal	compound
25	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 agreeing	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 helps	punct
27	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cause	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	cause	present	Dentists	a little pain		sometimes property	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition pain=Patient
2	stop	to-infinitive	Dentists not said here	worse pain		late property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality pain=Eventuality
3	tell speech: assert	gerund			the dentist		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dentist=Recipient
4	is	present	you			scared property	tree rules
5	agree speech: agree	gerund		a stop signal			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent signal=Topic
6	help	present	telling				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:16.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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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