New partners and step-families, sentence 11
A parent's new partner is not a new mum or dad; if they marry or live together, they become a step-parent.
Who acts: new partner, mum · What happens: not be, marry, live together, become · To what, where: new mum, step parent
This is a sentence of the lesson «New partners and step-families» 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 (new partner, mum), 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 parent | det |
| 2 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 partner | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 parent | case |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 partner | amod |
| 5 | partner | partner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mum | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 mum | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 mum | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 mum | det |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 mum | amod |
| 10 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 dad | cc |
| 12 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mum | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 become | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 marry | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 marry | nsubj |
| 16 | marry | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 become | advcl |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 live | cc |
| 18 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 marry | conj |
| 19 | together | together | ADV | _ | 18 live | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 marry | punct |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 become | nsubj |
| 22 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 mum | parataxis |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 parent | det |
| 24 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 parent | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 step | punct |
| 26 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 become | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 mum | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | a parent's new partner | a new mum or dad | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | marry a condition, not said to happen | present | mum | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | live together | present | mum not said here | together property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | become | present | mum | a step parent | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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:016-new-partners-and-step-families.lesson:11.
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): 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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