Dates, engagements and weddings, sentence 3

Even married parents need time just for the two of them, so on date night a trusted babysitter comes, and that does not mean they want to get away from you.

Who acts: married parents, trusted babysitter, that, couples · What happens: need, trust, come, not mean, want, get away · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Dates, engagements and weddings» 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 (married parents, trusted babysitter, that, couples), 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	Even	even	ADV	_	3 parents	advmod
2	married	married	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 parents	amod
3	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	obj
6	just	just	ADV	_	9 two	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 two	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 two	det
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 time	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 two	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 comes	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	20 comes	advmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 night	case
15	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 night	compound
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 comes	obl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 babysitter	det
18	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 babysitter	amod
19	babysitter	babysitter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 comes	nsubj
20	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 need	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 mean	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 mean	cc
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 mean	nsubj
24	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 mean	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 mean	advmod
26	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 comes	conj
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 want	nsubj
28	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 mean	ccomp
29	to	to	PART	_	30 get	mark
30	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 want	xcomp
31	away	away	ADV	_	30 get	advmod
32	from	from	ADP	_	33 you	case
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 get	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 need	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	married parents	time		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	trust	participle				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	come	present	a trusted babysitter	night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not mean	present · do-support	that			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	want	present	couples = couple			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	get away not said to happen	to-infinitive	couples = couple not said here		from you; away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from you=Source

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:013-dates-engagements-and-weddings.lesson:3.

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, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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