Being a good grown-up, sentence 14
When a grandparent is "slowing down", they may need more help, more doctor visits and more company from their family.
Who acts: grandparent, experience · What happens: slow down, need · To what, where: more help, family
This is a sentence of the lesson «Being a good grown-up» 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 (grandparent, experience), 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 | _ | 6 slowing | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 grandparent | det |
| 3 | grandparent | grandparent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 slowing | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 slowing | aux |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 slowing | punct |
| 6 | slowing | slow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 need | advcl |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 slowing | compound:prt |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 slowing | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 need | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 need | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 need | aux |
| 12 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 help | amod |
| 14 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 need | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 visits | punct |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 visits | amod |
| 17 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 visits | compound |
| 18 | visits | visit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 help | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 company | cc |
| 20 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 company | amod |
| 21 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 visits | conj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 family | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 family | nmod:poss |
| 24 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 need | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 need | 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 | slow down in a quote | present · progressive | a grandparent | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | need | may | experience | more help and more doctor visits and more company | experience's family | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=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:040-being-a-good-grown-up.lesson:14.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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