Gran, cousins and the whole wide family, sentence 14

A crush means really liking someone and thinking about them a lot; it is a private feeling and often passes.

Who acts: crush, family · What happens: mean, like, think, be, pass · To what, where: someone, lot, private feeling · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (crush, family), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 crush	det
2	crush	crush	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 liking	advmod
5	liking	like	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 means	ccomp
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 liking	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 thinking	cc
8	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 liking	conj
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thinking	obl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 lot	det
12	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thinking	obl:unmarked
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 feeling	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 feeling	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 feeling	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 feeling	det
17	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 feeling	amod
18	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 passes	cc
20	often	often	ADV	_	21 passes	advmod
21	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 feeling	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	a crush			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	like	gerund		someone		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot someone=Theme
3	think speech: other	gerund		a lot	about crushes = crush	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about they=Topic
4	is a	present	family	a private feeling		tree rules
5	pass	present	family not said here		often property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:14.

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): R7-rel-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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