Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war and what-ifs, sentence 3

When he finally told Mum what he'd heard, she explained they had a plan and he would be safe, and the tummy aches stopped; children often hear a bit of a grown-up worry and imagine the whole disaster.

Who acts: mind, she, things, tummy aches, children · What happens: tell, hear, explain, have, be, stop · To what, where: Mum, plan, bit, whole disaster · 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 (mind, she, things, tummy aches), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 told	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
3	finally	finally	ADV	_	4 told	advmod
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 explained	advcl
5	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obj
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 heard	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heard	nsubj
8	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 heard	aux
9	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 told	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 explained	nsubj
12	explained	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 explained	ccomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 plan	det
16	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 safe	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 safe	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 safe	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 safe	cop
21	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 plan	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 stopped	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 stopped	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 aches	det
25	tummy	tummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 aches	compound
26	aches	ache	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 stopped	nsubj
27	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 explained	conj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 hear	punct
29	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 hear	nsubj
30	often	often	ADV	_	31 hear	advmod
31	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 explained	parataxis
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 bit	det
33	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hear	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	39 worry	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 worry	det
36	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 worry	amod
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 grown	punct
38	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 worry	compound
39	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bit	nmod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 imagine	cc
41	imagine	imagine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	31 hear	conj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 disaster	det
43	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 disaster	amod
44	disaster	disaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 imagine	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 explained	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	mind		Mum	finally property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient clause=Topic
2	hear	past · perfect	mind				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
3	explain speech: assert	past	she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have	past	things = thing	a plan			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient
5	is	would	mind			safe property	tree rules
6	stop	past	the tummy aches				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	hear	present	children	a bit of a grown up worry		often property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bit=Stimulus
8	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	imagine	infinitive	children not said here	the whole disaster			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot disaster=Theme

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:3.

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, 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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