Dates, engagements and weddings, sentence 6

A babysitter is a trusted person who looks after children while parents are out, and parents leave phone numbers and rules so the babysitter knows who to call.

Who acts: babysitter, trusted person, parents · What happens: trust, be, look, leave, know, call · To what, where: trusted person, phone numbers · 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 (babysitter, trusted person, parents), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 babysitter	det
2	babysitter	babysitter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 person	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 person	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 person	det
5	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 person	amod
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 looks	nsubj
8	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 person	acl:relcl
9	after	after	ADP	_	10 children	case
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 looks	obl
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 out	mark
12	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 out	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 out	cop
14	out	out	ADV	_	8 looks	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 leave	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 leave	cc
17	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 leave	nsubj
18	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 looks	conj
19	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 numbers	compound
20	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 leave	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 rules	cc
22	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 numbers	conj
23	so	so	SCONJ	_	26 knows	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 babysitter	det
25	babysitter	babysitter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 knows	nsubj
26	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 leave	advcl
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 call	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 call	mark
29	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 knows	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 person	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	trust	participle					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	a babysitter	a trusted person			tree rules
3	look	present	a trusted person		after children		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	is	present	parents			out property	tree rules
5	leave	present	parents	phone numbers and rules			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme
6	know	present	the babysitter				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	call	to-infinitive					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent who=Recipient

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:6.

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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