Life and death: putting it all together, sentence 9
Knowing what happens at a funeral helps children feel less afraid.
Who acts: Knowing, children · What happens: know, happen, help, feel · To what, where: funeral, children · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Life and death: putting it all together» 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 (Knowing, 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 | Knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 helps | csubj |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happens | nsubj |
| 3 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Knowing | ccomp |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 funeral | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 funeral | det |
| 6 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happens | obl |
| 7 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 helps | obj |
| 9 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 helps | xcomp |
| 10 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 afraid | advmod |
| 11 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 feel | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | happen | present | a funeral | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at funeral=Location | |||||
| 3 | help | present | Knowing | children | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | feel | infinitive | children not said here | afraid property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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:080-life-and-death-putting-it-all-together.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): 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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