When Grandma and Grandad need more help, sentence 3
Families have hard choices to make: a carer at home, a care home, or looking after Grandma themselves.
Who acts: Families · What happens: have, make, look · To what, where: hard choices
This is a sentence of the lesson «When Grandma and Grandad need more help» 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 (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 | Families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 choices | amod |
| 4 | choices | choice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 choices | acl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 carer | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 carer | det |
| 9 | carer | carer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 choices | appos |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 home | case |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carer | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 care | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 care | det |
| 14 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 home | compound |
| 15 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carer | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 looking | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 looking | cc |
| 18 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 have | conj |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 Grandma | case |
| 20 | Grandma | Grandma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 looking | obl |
| 21 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 20 Grandma | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Families | hard choices | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | Families not said here | hard choices not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | Families not said here | after Grandma Families | 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:023-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help.lesson:3.
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): R5-strong ×4, 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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