What people leave behind, sentence 8
Such family fights can last a long time and may involve lawyers, but they often calm down in the end, and a child never has to take a side.
Who acts: Such family fights, fights, child · What happens: last, involve, calm down, not have, take · To what, where: lawyers, end, side
This is a sentence of the lesson «What people leave behind» 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 (Such family fights, fights, child), 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 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fights | amod |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fights | compound |
| 3 | fights | fight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 last | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 last | aux |
| 5 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 last | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 involve | cc |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 involve | aux |
| 11 | involve | involve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 last | conj |
| 12 | lawyers | lawyer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 involve | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 calm | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 calm | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 calm | nsubj |
| 16 | often | often | ADV | _ | 17 calm | advmod |
| 17 | calm | calm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 last | conj |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 calm | compound:prt |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 end | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 end | det |
| 21 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 calm | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 has | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 has | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 child | det |
| 25 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 has | nsubj |
| 26 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 27 has | advmod |
| 27 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 involve | parataxis |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 take | mark |
| 29 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 has | xcomp |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 side | det |
| 31 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 take | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 last | 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 | last | can | Such family fights | time | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | involve | may | Such family fights not said here | lawyers | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lawyer=Theme | ||||
| 3 | calm down | present | fights = fight | in the end | often property | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | not have | present | a child | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | take | to-infinitive | a child not said here | a side | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=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:026-what-people-leave-behind.lesson:8.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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