New partners and step-families, sentence 5
If they marry or move in, they become a step-parent, their children become step-brothers and step-sisters, and a baby they have together is a half-brother or half-sister.
Who acts: mum, children, baby · What happens: marry, move in, become, have, be · To what, where: step parent, step brothers, baby, half brother
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 (mum, children, baby), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 marry | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 marry | nsubj |
| 3 | marry | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 become | advcl |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 move | cc |
| 5 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 marry | conj |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 move | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 marry | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 become | nsubj |
| 9 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 parent | det |
| 11 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 parent | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 step | punct |
| 13 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 become | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 become | punct |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 children | nmod:poss |
| 16 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 become | nsubj |
| 17 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 become | conj |
| 18 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brothers | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 step | punct |
| 20 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 become | xcomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sisters | cc |
| 22 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sisters | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 step | punct |
| 24 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 brothers | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 brother | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 brother | cc |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 baby | det |
| 28 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 brother | nsubj |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 have | nsubj |
| 30 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 baby | acl:relcl |
| 31 | together | together | ADV | _ | 30 have | advmod |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 brother | cop |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 brother | det |
| 34 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 36 brother | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 half | punct |
| 36 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 become | conj |
| 37 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 40 sister | cc |
| 38 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 40 sister | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 half | punct |
| 40 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 brother | conj |
| 41 | . | . | 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 | marry a condition, not said to happen | present | mum | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | move in | present | mum not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | become | present | mum | a step parent | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | become | present | mum's children | step brothers and step sisters | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | have | present | mum | a baby not said here | together property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient | |||
| 6 | is a | present | a baby | a half brother or half sister | 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:016-new-partners-and-step-families.lesson:5.
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 ×2, 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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