--- title: Being scared of how an ill parent looks does not make a child mean;… — Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss tha… · tree and pragmatics description: Being scared of how an ill parent looks does not make a child mean; asking questions usually helps more than pretending not to notice. Who acts: ill parent, child, asking. 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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 (ill parent, child, asking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:003-living-with-loss-keeping-memories-and-loss-that-isn-t-death.lesson:8 # text = Being scared of how an ill parent looks does not make a child mean; asking questions usually helps more than pretending not to notice. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 003-living-with-loss-keeping-memories-and-loss-that-isn-t-death.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 cop _ _ 2 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 csubj _ _ 3 of of SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 4 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 5 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 9 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj 17 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 usually usually ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 20 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 obj _ _ 21 than than SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 22 pretending pretend VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 acl _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 notice notice VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | scared *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **look** | present | a ill parent | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | | a child | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **mean** | infinitive | a child *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | questions | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | | 6 | **help** | present | asking | more | | | | usually *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Beneficiary | | 7 | **pretend** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **not** **notice** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:reflection:003-living-with-loss-keeping-memories-and-loss-that-isn-t-death.lesson:8`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-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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