Coffee, tea, wine and the pub, sentence 4
When a grown-up drinks too much, it is never the child's fault and never the child's job to fix.
Who acts: law, child · What happens: grow up, not be, fix, job · To what, where: fault
This is a sentence of the lesson «Coffee, tea, wine and the pub» 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 (law, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 much | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 up | det |
| 3 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 drinks | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 up | punct |
| 5 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grown | compound:prt |
| 6 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 much | nsubj |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 much | advmod |
| 8 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fault | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fault | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fault | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 fault | cop |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 fault | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 child | det |
| 14 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fault | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 child | case |
| 16 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 job | cc |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 job | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 child | det |
| 20 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 job | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 child | case |
| 22 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fault | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 fix | mark |
| 24 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 job | acl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 fault | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | not is a | present | law | the child's fault and the child's job | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fix | to-infinitive | law not said here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | job | the child | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:027-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub.lesson:4.
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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×2. 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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