Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war and what-ifs, sentence 5
Some children carry very heavy memories, like war, for a long time; that is not weakness, and special help, such as a counsellor and a kind classmate, can make it lighter.
Who acts: children, that · What happens: carry, not be, make · To what, where: heavy memories, weakness, classmate
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 (children, that), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 carry | nsubj |
| 3 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 heavy | advmod |
| 5 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 memories | amod |
| 6 | memories | memory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 carry | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 war | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 war | case |
| 9 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 memories | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 time | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carry | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 weakness | punct |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 weakness | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 weakness | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 weakness | advmod |
| 19 | weakness | weakness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 time | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 help | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 help | cc |
| 22 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 help | amod |
| 23 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 time | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 counsellor | punct |
| 25 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 28 counsellor | case |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 such | fixed |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 counsellor | det |
| 28 | counsellor | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 help | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 classmate | cc |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 classmate | det |
| 31 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 classmate | compound |
| 32 | classmate | classmate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 counsellor | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 time | punct |
| 34 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 make | aux |
| 35 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 carry | conj |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 make | obj |
| 37 | lighter | light | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 35 make | xcomp |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | some children | heavy memories | time | like war | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Theme | ||
| 2 | not is a | present | that | weakness | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | can | some children not said here | classmate | light property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
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:5.
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. 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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