Gran, cousins and the whole wide family, sentence 12
Cousins are the children of your aunts and uncles, and families spread out, so some cousins only meet at weddings and funerals.
Who acts: Cousins, families · What happens: be, spread out, meet · To what, where: children, weddings
This is a sentence of the lesson «Gran, cousins and the whole wide family» 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 (Cousins, families), 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 | Cousins | cousin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 children | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 children | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 children | det |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 aunts | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 aunts | nmod:poss |
| 7 | aunts | aunt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 children | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 uncles | cc |
| 9 | uncles | uncle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 aunts | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 spread | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 spread | cc |
| 12 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 spread | nsubj |
| 13 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 children | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 spread | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 meet | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 meet | advmod |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 cousins | det |
| 18 | cousins | cousin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 meet | nsubj |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 meet | advmod |
| 20 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 children | conj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 weddings | case |
| 22 | weddings | wedding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 meet | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 funerals | cc |
| 24 | funerals | funeral | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 weddings | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 children | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Cousins | the children | of your aunts and uncles | tree rules | |||
| 2 | spread out | present | families | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | meet | present | some cousins | weddings and funerals | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:017-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family.lesson:12.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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