Kindness to the dying and visiting the old, sentence 4

Kindness also means noticing: if a lonely neighbour has not been seen for days, tell a grown-up, who can check safely; an old person who has fallen may need help fast.

Who acts: Kindness, old person · What happens: mean, notice, not see, tell, check, fall · To what, where: lonely neighbour, grown, help · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Kindness to the dying and visiting the old» 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 (Kindness, old person), 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	Kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 means	advmod
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	noticing	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 means	ccomp
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 seen	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 neighbour	det
8	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 neighbour	amod
9	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seen	nsubj
10	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 seen	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 seen	advmod
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 seen	aux:pass
13	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 tell	advcl
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 days	case
15	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 seen	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seen	punct
17	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 means	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 up	det
19	grown	grow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tell	obj
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 up	punct
21	up	up	ADP	_	17 tell	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 check	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 check	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 check	aux
25	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 up	acl:relcl
26	safely	safely	ADV	_	25 check	advmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 person	punct
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 person	det
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 person	amod
30	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 need	nsubj
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 fallen	nsubj
32	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 fallen	aux
33	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 person	acl:relcl
34	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 need	aux
35	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 means	parataxis
36	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 need	obj
37	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 need	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Kindness				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	notice	gerund					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	not see a condition, not said to happen	present · perfect · passive		a lonely neighbour	day		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive	Kindness not said here	grown			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent grow=Recipient up=Topic
5	check	can				safely property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	fall	present · perfect	a old person				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	need	may	a old person	help		fast property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=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:077-kindness-to-the-dying-and-visiting-the-old.lesson:4.

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): R5-strong ×3. 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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