--- title: Telling a young child that someone «went to sleep» can confuse them… — Moving, new schools, change and grief · tree and pragmatics description: Telling a young child that someone «went to sleep» can confuse them and make them scared of sleep, so clear words like «died» are kinder. Who acts: someone, Telling, clear words. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (someone, Telling, clear words), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:097-moving-change-and-grief.lesson:17 # text = Telling a young child that someone «went to sleep» can confuse them and make them scared of sleep, so clear words like «died» are kinder. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 097-moving-change-and-grief.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 8 nsubj _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 confuse confuse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 parataxis _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 25 like like ADP IN _ 27 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 26 « « PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 27 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:acl:relcl 28 » » PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 kinder kind ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | a young child | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **go** *in a quote* | past | someone | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **sleep** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | someone *not said here* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **confuse** | can | Telling | family | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 5 | **make** | infinitive | Telling *not said here* | family | | | | scared *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | | 6 | **die** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 7 | **is** | present | clear words | | | | | kind *property* | tree rules | 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:097-moving-change-and-grief.lesson:17`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Moving, new schools, change and grief, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/97-moving-change-and-grief/16/) - next →: [Moving, new schools, change and grief, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/97-moving-change-and-grief/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/97-moving-change-and-grief/)