New partners and step-families, sentence 13
The children of a parent's partner can become your step-siblings: brothers or sisters through marriage, not by birth.
Who acts: children · What happens: become · To what, where: step siblings
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 (children), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 become | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 partner | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 parent | det |
| 5 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 partner | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 parent | case |
| 7 | partner | partner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 children | nmod |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 become | aux |
| 9 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 siblings | nmod:poss |
| 11 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 siblings | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 step | punct |
| 13 | siblings | sibling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 become | xcomp |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 brothers | punct |
| 15 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 siblings | appos |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 sisters | cc |
| 17 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 brothers | conj |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 marriage | case |
| 19 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brothers | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 birth | punct |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 birth | advmod |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 birth | case |
| 23 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 marriage | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 become | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | can | the children of a parent's partner | your step siblings | 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:13.
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. 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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