Closed doors, whispers and secrets, sentence 5
Later Mum explains: Grandpa needs a small operation and they were planning the trip to visit him.
Who acts: Mum, Grandpa, ups · What happens: explain, need, plan, visit · To what, where: small operation, trip, Grandpa · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Closed doors, whispers and secrets» 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 (Mum, Grandpa, ups), 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 | Later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 explains | advmod |
| 2 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 explains | nsubj |
| 3 | explains | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 needs | punct |
| 5 | Grandpa | grandpa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 needs | nsubj |
| 6 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 explains | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 operation | det |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 operation | amod |
| 9 | operation | operation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 needs | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 planning | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 planning | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 planning | aux |
| 13 | planning | plan | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 needs | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 trip | det |
| 15 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 planning | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 visit | mark |
| 17 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 planning | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 visit | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 explains | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | present | Mum | late property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | need | present | Grandpa | a small operation | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot operation=Theme | ||||
| 3 | plan | past · progressive | ups = up | the trip | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trip=Topic | ||||
| 4 | visit | to-infinitive | ups = up not said here | Grandpa | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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:035-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets.lesson:5.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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