Souls, ghosts and stories, sentence 6

The wise move with big questions is to ask them freely, listen to many answers, and be careful with jokes about death, because someone near you may be missing a person they loved.

Who acts: wise move, someone, questions · What happens: be, listen, miss, love · To what, where: person

This is a sentence of the lesson «Souls, ghosts and stories» 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 (wise move, someone, questions), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 move	det
2	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 move	amod
3	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ask	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 questions	case
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 questions	amod
6	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 move	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 ask	cop
8	to	to	PART	_	9 ask	mark
9	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ask	obj
11	freely	freely	ADV	_	9 ask	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 listen	punct
13	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 ask	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 answers	case
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 answers	amod
16	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 listen	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 careful	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 careful	cc
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 careful	cop
20	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ask	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 jokes	case
22	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 careful	obl
23	about	about	ADP	_	24 death	case
24	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 jokes	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 someone	punct
26	because	because	SCONJ	ExtPos=ADP	32 missing	mark
27	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	32 missing	nsubj
28	near	near	ADP	_	29 you	case
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 someone	nmod
30	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 missing	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 missing	aux
32	missing	miss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 ask	advcl
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 person	det
34	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 missing	obj
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 loved	nsubj
36	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 person	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 ask	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the wise move with big questions		ask, freely property	tree rules
2	listen	infinitive	the wise move with big questions not said here		to many answers	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to answer=Theme
3	is	infinitive	the wise move with big questions not said here		with jokes about death; careful property	tree rules
4	miss	may · progressive	someone	a person		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus
5	love	past	questions = question	a person not said here		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus

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:074-souls-ghosts-and-stories.lesson:6.

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): no change. 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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