Dates, engagements and weddings, sentence 7
Older relatives often ask young people "Have you got a boyfriend or girlfriend yet?" because they are interested, but many people find it embarrassing, and "Not right now" is a fine answer.
Who acts: Older relatives, young people, relatives, many people · What happens: ask, get, be, find · To what, where: young people, boyfriend, girlfriend, fine answer · 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 (Older relatives, young people, relatives, many people), 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 | Older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 relatives | amod |
| 2 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 ask | advmod |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 people | amod |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ask | iobj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 8 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 got | aux |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 got | nsubj |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 ask | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 boyfriend | det |
| 12 | boyfriend | boyfriend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | obj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 girlfriend | cc |
| 14 | girlfriend | girlfriend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 boyfriend | conj |
| 15 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 10 got | advmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 interested | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 interested | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 interested | cop |
| 21 | interested | interested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ask | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 find | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 find | cc |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 people | amod |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 find | nsubj |
| 26 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ask | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 find | obj |
| 28 | embarrassing | embarrassing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 find | xcomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 answer | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 answer | cc |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 now | punct |
| 32 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 now | advmod |
| 33 | right | right | ADV | _ | 34 now | advmod |
| 34 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 answer | advmod |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 now | punct |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 answer | cop |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 answer | det |
| 38 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 answer | amod |
| 39 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ask | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Older relatives | young people | often property | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | get in a quote | present · perfect | young people = people | a boyfriend or girlfriend | yet | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boyfriend=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is | present | relatives = relative | interested property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | find | present | many people | girlfriend | embarrassing property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 5 | is a | present | Older relatives not said here | a fine answer | now | tree rules |
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:7.
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, R7-rel-agree ×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.
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