A new baby in the house, sentence 11
Godparents are chosen at a christening to take a special interest in the child as it grows.
Who acts: christening · What happens: choose, take, grow · To what, where: Godparents, christening, special interest
This is a sentence of the lesson «A new baby in the house» 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 (christening), 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 | Godparents | godparent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 chosen | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 chosen | aux:pass |
| 3 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 christening | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 christening | det |
| 6 | christening | christening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chosen | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 take | mark |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 chosen | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 interest | det |
| 10 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 interest | amod |
| 11 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 child | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 child | det |
| 14 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 interest | nmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 grows | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 grows | nsubj |
| 17 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 take | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chosen | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | present · passive | Godparents | a christening | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at christening=Asset | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | a special interest | in the child | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent interest=Value in child=Location | ||||
| 3 | grow | present | christening | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:019-a-new-baby-in-the-house.lesson:11.
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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