A day at a grown-up's job, sentence 18
When a parent seems frazzled after work, it is usually the workload, not anything the child did.
Who acts: parent, work, child · What happens: seem, be, do
This is a sentence of the lesson «A day at a grown-up's job» of the adult life 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 (parent, work, child), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 seems | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 parent | det |
| 3 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seems | nsubj |
| 4 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 workload | advcl |
| 5 | frazzled | frazzle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 seems | xcomp |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 workload | case |
| 7 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 after | fixed |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 after | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 workload | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 workload | cop |
| 11 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 13 workload | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 workload | det |
| 13 | workload | workload | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 anything | punct |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 anything | advmod |
| 16 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 workload | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 child | det |
| 18 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 did | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 anything | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 workload | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | a parent | frazzle property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | work | after the workload | usually property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | do | past | the child | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:adult-life:001-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job.lesson:18.
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): no change. 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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