A new baby in the house, sentence 15
Maternity leave is time off work for a new mother; in Britain it can last up to a year, often on lower pay.
Who acts: work · What happens: be, last up · To what, where: leave time, Britain
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 (work), 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 | Maternity | maternity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leave | compound |
| 2 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | compound |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | cop |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 work | case |
| 6 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | nmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 mother | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 mother | det |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 mother | amod |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 work | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 last | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Britain | case |
| 13 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 last | obl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 last | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 last | aux |
| 16 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 time | parataxis |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 last | compound:prt |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 year | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 year | det |
| 20 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 last | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 pay | punct |
| 22 | often | often | ADV | _ | 25 pay | advmod |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 pay | case |
| 24 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 pay | amod |
| 25 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 last | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | 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 | leave time | off work for a new mother | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | last up | can | work | Britain | year | on lower pay | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: 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: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): no change. 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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