Bedtime fears: «Will you die, Mum?» and «Will I die?», sentence 15

Christian families often choose godparents, who promise at the baptism to help care for a child.

Who acts: Christian families, godparents · What happens: choose, promise, help, care · To what, where: godparents, baptism

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bedtime fears: «Will you die, Mum?» and «Will I die?»» 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 (Christian families, godparents), 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	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 families	amod
2	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 choose	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 choose	advmod
4	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	godparents	godparent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 choose	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 promise	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 promise	nsubj
8	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 godparents	acl:relcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 baptism	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 baptism	det
11	baptism	baptism	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 promise	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 help	mark
13	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 promise	advcl
14	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 help	xcomp
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 child	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 child	det
17	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 care	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 choose	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	choose	present	Christian families	godparents		often property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent godparent=Theme
2	promise speech: promise	present	godparents		the baptism		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	help	to-infinitive	godparents not said here				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	care	infinitive	godparents not said here			for a child	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for child=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:070-bedtime-fears-will-you-die-mum-and-will-i-die.lesson:15.

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 ×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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