Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war and what-ifs, sentence 17

In a scary emergency many people freeze for a moment; shouting for a grown-up and learning basic first aid help children feel ready.

Who acts: many people, children · What happens: freeze, shout, learn, help, feel · To what, where: scary emergency, up, basic first aid, children

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 (many people, children), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 emergency	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 emergency	det
3	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 emergency	amod
4	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 freeze	obl
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 freeze	nsubj
7	freeze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 moment	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 moment	det
10	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 freeze	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 shouting	punct
12	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 help	nsubj
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 grown	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 up	det
15	grown	grow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shouting	obl
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 grown	punct
17	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shouting	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 learning	cc
19	learning	learn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 shouting	conj
20	basic	basic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 aid	amod
21	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 aid	amod
22	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 learning	obj
23	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 freeze	parataxis
24	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 help	obj
25	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 help	xcomp
26	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 feel	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 freeze	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	present	many people		a scary emergency	moment		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	shout speech: express	gerund		a up			for grown	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for grow=Recipient
3	learn	gerund		basic first aid				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aid=Topic
4	help	present		children				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary clause=Theme
5	feel	infinitive	children not said here				ready 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:17.

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 ×3. 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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