New partners and step-families, sentence 12
Many children call a step-parent by their first name, and it is fine to ask what to call them.
Who acts: Many children, parents · What happens: call, be, ask, name · To what, where: step parent, parents · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Many children, 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 children | amod |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 call | nsubj |
| 3 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 parent | det |
| 5 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 parent | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 step | punct |
| 7 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 call | obj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 name | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 name | nmod:poss |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 name | amod |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 call | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fine | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fine | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fine | expl |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 fine | cop |
| 16 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 call | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 ask | mark |
| 18 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 fine | csubj |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 call | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 call | mark |
| 21 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 ask | ccomp |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 call | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | Many children | a step parent | by parents's first name | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is | present | Many children not said here | fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | call not said to happen | to-infinitive | parents = parent | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme they=Result | |||||
| 5 | name | parents = parent | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:12.
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 ×2. 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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