Accidents, wars and deaths on the news, sentence 6
An accident is something nobody meant to happen; grown-ups can explain what happened simply, without upsetting details.
Who acts: accident, nobody, grown ups · What happens: be, mean, happen, explain · To what, where: something · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Accidents, wars and deaths on the news» of the religion ethics 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 (accident, nobody, grown ups), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 accident | det |
| 2 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 something | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 something | cop |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 5 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 meant | nsubj |
| 6 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 something | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 happen | mark |
| 8 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 meant | xcomp |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 something | punct |
| 10 | grown | grow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ups | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 ups | punct |
| 12 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 explain | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 explain | aux |
| 14 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 something | parataxis |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 happened | nsubj |
| 16 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 explain | ccomp |
| 17 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 16 happened | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 details | punct |
| 19 | without | without | ADP | _ | 21 details | case |
| 20 | upsetting | upsetting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 details | amod |
| 21 | details | detail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 explain | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 something | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a accident | something | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | past | nobody | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | happen not said to happen | to-infinitive | nobody not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | explain speech: assert | can | grown ups | without upsetting details | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | happen | past | simply property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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:religion-ethics:060-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news.lesson:6.
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): no change. 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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