Grief: anger, guilt and laughing at the wrong moment, sentence 13
Nervous laughter at serious times is common; it is the body letting off tension, not a sign of not caring.
Who acts: Nervous laughter, laughter, body, sign · What happens: be, let off, not care · To what, where: body, tension
This is a sentence of the lesson «Grief: anger, guilt and laughing at the wrong moment» 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 (Nervous laughter, laughter, body, sign), 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 | Nervous | nervous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 laughter | amod |
| 2 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 common | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 times | case |
| 4 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 times | amod |
| 5 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 laughter | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 common | cop |
| 7 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 body | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 body | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 body | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 body | det |
| 12 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 common | conj |
| 13 | letting | let | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 body | acl |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 letting | compound:prt |
| 15 | tension | tension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 letting | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sign | punct |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 sign | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sign | det |
| 19 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 body | conj |
| 20 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 22 caring | mark |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 caring | advmod |
| 22 | caring | care | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 sign | acl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 common | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Nervous laughter at serious times | common property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | laughter | the body and a sign | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | let off | gerund | the body and a sign not said here | tension | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tension=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not care | gerund | a sign not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:067-grief-anger-guilt-and-laughing-at-the-wrong-moment.lesson:13.
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. 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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