We're having a baby!, sentence 15
Labour can take many hours, so a grandparent or friend often comes to look after the older children.
Who acts: Labour, grandparent · What happens: take, come, look
This is a sentence of the lesson «We're having a baby!» 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 (Labour, grandparent), 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 | Labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hours | amod |
| 5 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 take | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 comes | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 comes | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 grandparent | det |
| 9 | grandparent | grandparent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 comes | nsubj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 friend | cc |
| 11 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grandparent | conj |
| 12 | often | often | ADV | _ | 13 comes | advmod |
| 13 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 look | mark |
| 15 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 comes | xcomp |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 children | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 children | det |
| 18 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 children | amod |
| 19 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 look | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | 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 | take | can | Labour | hour | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come | present | a grandparent or friend | often property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | a grandparent or friend not said here | after the older children | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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:018-were-having-a-baby.lesson:15.
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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