--- title: Hearing about danger is hard, and it helps to tell Mum or Dad how it… — Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met · tree and pragmatics description: Hearing about danger is hard, and it helps to tell Mum or Dad how it feels. Who acts: Hearing, danger. A sentence of the lesson «Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Grandparents abroad and grandparents y…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/) / 4 # Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met, sentence 4 Hearing about danger is hard, and it helps to tell Mum or Dad how it feels. **Who acts:** Hearing, danger · **What happens:** hear, be, help, tell, feel · **To what, where:** danger, Mum · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met» of the everyday 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 (Hearing, danger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met.lesson:4 # text = Hearing about danger is hard, and it helps to tell Mum or Dad how it feels. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met.lesson # annotation = 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Hearing hear VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 csubj _ _ 2 about about ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj 9 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 Dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 15 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | gerund | | | | | | about danger | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about danger=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | present | Hearing | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **help** | present | Hearing *not said here* | danger | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | danger *not said here* | | Mum or Dad | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **feel** | present | danger | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:everyday:513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met.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 ×1, 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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