New partners and step-families, sentence 8

When Dad says "There's someone I'd like you to meet", he means he has a new partner he cares about and wants you to know.

Who acts: Dad, someone, you · What happens: say, be, like, meet, mean, have · To what, where: you, new partner · 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 (Dad, someone, you), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 says	advmod
2	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 means	advcl
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 's	punct
5	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 's	expl
6	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 's	nsubj
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 like	nsubj
9	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 like	aux
10	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 someone	acl:relcl
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 like	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 meet	mark
13	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 like	xcomp
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 meet	punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 means	nsubj
17	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 has	nsubj
19	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 means	ccomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 partner	det
21	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 partner	amod
22	partner	partner	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 has	obj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 cares	nsubj
24	cares	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 partner	acl:relcl
25	about	about	ADV	_	24 cares	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 wants	cc
27	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 cares	conj
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 wants	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 know	mark
30	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 wants	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Dad				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be in a quote	present	someone		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	like in a quote	would	Dad	you			tree rules
4	meet not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Dad not said here				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	mean	present	dad				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	have	present	dad	a new partner			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partner=Patient
7	care	present	dad	a new partner not said here		about property	tree rules
8	want	present	dad not said here	you			tree rules
9	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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:8.

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): 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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