Bedtime fears: «Will you die, Mum?» and «Will I die?», sentence 9

Lots of children feel scared of dying at some point; it is normal, and talking about it makes the fear smaller.

Who acts: Lots, sleep, talking · What happens: feel, die, be, talk, make · To what, where: point, fear

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 (Lots, sleep, talking), 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	Lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feel	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 children	case
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Lots	nmod
4	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feel	xcomp
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 dying	mark
7	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 scared	advcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 point	case
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 point	det
10	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dying	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 normal	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 normal	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 normal	cop
14	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 scared	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 makes	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 makes	cc
17	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 makes	csubj
18	about	about	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 talking	obl
20	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 normal	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fear	det
22	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 makes	obj
23	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 makes	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 feel	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	present	Lots of children			scared property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	die	gerund	Lots of children not said here		some point		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	is	present	sleep			normal property	tree rules
4	talk	gerund				about sleep	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
5	make	present	talking	the fear		small property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fear=Product

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:9.

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, R5-strong ×1, 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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