Bedtime fears: «Will you die, Mum?» and «Will I die?», sentence 8
It is extremely rare for a healthy child to die in their sleep; sleep is safe and helps the body rest and grow.
Who acts: healthy child, sleep, body, children · What happens: be, die, help, rest, grow, sleep · To what, where: body
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 (healthy child, sleep, body, children), 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 | 4 rare | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rare | cop |
| 3 | extremely | extremely | ADV | _ | 4 rare | advmod |
| 4 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 die | mark |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 child | det |
| 7 | healthy | healthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 child | amod |
| 8 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 die | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 die | mark |
| 10 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 rare | csubj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 sleep | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 die | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 safe | punct |
| 15 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 safe | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 safe | cop |
| 17 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rare | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 helps | cc |
| 19 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rare | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 body | det |
| 21 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 helps | obj |
| 22 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 helps | xcomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 grow | cc |
| 24 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 rest | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rare | 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 | extremely, rare property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | die | to-infinitive | a healthy child | in children's sleep | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in sleep=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | is | present | sleep | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | help | present | the body | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent body=Beneficiary clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | rest | infinitive | the body not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | grow | infinitive | the body not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | sleep | children = child | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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:070-bedtime-fears-will-you-die-mum-and-will-i-die.lesson:8.
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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