New partners and step-families, sentence 2
Grown-ups usually wait until the relationship is serious before the children meet the new partner, and they pick a relaxed, ordinary place for the first meeting.
Who acts: ups, relationship, children · What happens: grow, wait, be, meet, pick · To what, where: new partner, relaxed ordinary place
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 (ups, relationship, 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 | Grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 wait | punct |
| 3 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wait | nsubj |
| 4 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 5 wait | advmod |
| 5 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Grown | conj |
| 6 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 10 serious | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 relationship | det |
| 8 | relationship | relationship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 serious | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 serious | cop |
| 10 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wait | advcl |
| 11 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 14 meet | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 children | det |
| 13 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 meet | nsubj |
| 14 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wait | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 partner | det |
| 16 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 partner | amod |
| 17 | partner | partner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 meet | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pick | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pick | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 pick | nsubj |
| 21 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wait | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 place | det |
| 23 | relaxed | relaxed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 place | amod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 relaxed | punct |
| 25 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 place | amod |
| 26 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pick | obj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 meeting | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 meeting | det |
| 29 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 30 meeting | amod |
| 30 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 place | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | wait | present | ups | usually property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the relationship | serious property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | meet | present | the children | the new partner | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partner=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | pick | present | children = child | a relaxed ordinary place | for the first meeting | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent place=Theme for meeting=Beneficiary |
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:2.
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): R6-punct-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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