--- title: Some children carry very heavy memories, like war, for a long time;… — Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war… · tree and pragmatics description: Some children carry very heavy memories, like war, for a long time; that is not weakness, and special help, such as a counsellor and a kind classmate, can make it lighter. Who acts: children, that. 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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 (children, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:008-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs.lesson:5 # text = Some children carry very heavy memories, like war, for a long time; that is not weakness, and special help, such as a counsellor and a kind classmate, can make it lighter. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 008-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 memories memory NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 weakness weakness NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 parataxis _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 parataxis _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 28 case _ _ 26 as as ADP IN _ 25 fixed _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 counsellor counsellor NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:appos 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 classmate classmate NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 34 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 make make VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 lighter light ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 35 xcomp _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | present | some children | heavy memories | | | time | like war | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Theme | | 2 | **not** **is a** | present | that | weakness | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | can | some children *not said here* | classmate | | | | light *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | 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:008-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs.lesson:5`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-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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