When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do, sentence 10
It is kinder to let a grieving person choose what to share than to ask for details.
Who acts: grieving person · What happens: be, let, grieve, choose, share, ask · To what, where: grieving person
This is a sentence of the lesson «When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do» 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 (grieving person), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kinder | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 kinder | cop |
| 3 | kinder | kind | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 let | mark |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 kinder | csubj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 person | det |
| 7 | grieving | grieve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 person | amod |
| 8 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 let | obj |
| 9 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 share | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 share | mark |
| 12 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 choose | xcomp |
| 13 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 15 ask | mark |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 ask | mark |
| 15 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 details | case |
| 17 | details | detail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ask | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kinder | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | kind property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | let | to-infinitive | a grieving person | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | grieve | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | choose | infinitive | a grieving person not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | share | to-infinitive | a grieving person not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | for details | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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:religion-ethics:061-when-a-friends-mum-or-dad-dies-what-to-say-and-do.lesson:10.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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