New partners and step-families, sentence 7
Mixing two families takes time, and it is normal to find it hard at first.
Who acts: Mixing · What happens: mix, take, be, find · To what, where: two families, baby
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 (Mixing), 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 | Mixing | mix | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 takes | csubj |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 families | nummod |
| 3 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Mixing | obj |
| 4 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 takes | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 normal | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 normal | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 normal | expl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 normal | cop |
| 10 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 takes | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 find | mark |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 normal | csubj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 find | obj |
| 14 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 find | advmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 first | case |
| 16 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 hard | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 takes | 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 | mix | gerund | two families | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Patient | |||||
| 2 | take | present | Mixing | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Mixing not said here | normal property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | baby | hard property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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:7.
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): no change. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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