Bad news, protests and helping others, sentence 19
A homeless person has nowhere safe to live, often because of losing a job, a family breaking up or illness.
Who acts: homeless person, family · What happens: have, live, lose, break up · To what, where: job
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bad news, protests and helping others» 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 (homeless person, family), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 person | det |
| 2 | homeless | homeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 person | amod |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 has | obj |
| 6 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 nowhere | amod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 live | mark |
| 8 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 nowhere | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 losing | punct |
| 10 | often | often | ADV | _ | 13 losing | advmod |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 losing | mark |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 because | fixed |
| 13 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 has | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 job | det |
| 15 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 losing | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 family | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 family | det |
| 18 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 job | conj |
| 19 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 family | acl |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 breaking | compound:prt |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 illness | cc |
| 22 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 job | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | 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 | a homeless person | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nowhere=Patient | |||||
| 2 | live | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | lose | gerund | a homeless person not said here | a job and a family or illness | often property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | break up | gerund | a family not said here | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:032-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others.lesson:19.
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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