When parents separate, sentence 10
A solicitor is a kind of lawyer who helps with legal things like a divorce; seeing one does not mean anyone is in trouble with the police.
Who acts: solicitor, lawyer, seeing, anyone · What happens: be, help, see, not mean · To what, where: kind, one, trouble · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «When parents separate» 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 (solicitor, lawyer, seeing, anyone), 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 solicitor | det |
| 2 | solicitor | solicitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kind | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 kind | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 kind | det |
| 5 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 lawyer | case |
| 7 | lawyer | lawyer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kind | nmod |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 helps | nsubj |
| 9 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lawyer | acl:relcl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 things | case |
| 11 | legal | legal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 things | amod |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 helps | obl |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 divorce | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 divorce | det |
| 15 | divorce | divorce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 things | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 mean | punct |
| 17 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 mean | csubj |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 seeing | obj |
| 19 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 mean | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 mean | advmod |
| 21 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 kind | parataxis |
| 22 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 25 trouble | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 trouble | cop |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 trouble | case |
| 25 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mean | ccomp |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 police | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 police | det |
| 28 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 trouble | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a solicitor | a kind | of lawyer | tree rules | |||
| 2 | help | present | lawyer | with legal things like a divorce | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with thing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | gerund | one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | not mean | present · do-support | seeing | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | present | anyone | trouble | with the police | 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:015-when-parents-separate.lesson:10.
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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