Being a good grown-up, sentence 3
Grown-ups also live through changes they cannot stop: getting older, parents slowing down, friends drifting away and children leaving home.
Who acts: Grown ups, things, parents, friends · What happens: grow, live, not stop, get, slow down, drift away · To what, where: changes
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 (Grown ups, things, parents, friends), 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 | Grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ups | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 ups | punct |
| 3 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 live | nsubj |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 live | advmod |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 changes | case |
| 7 | changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 live | obl |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stop | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 stop | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 stop | advmod |
| 11 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 changes | acl:relcl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 getting | punct |
| 13 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 live | conj |
| 14 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 getting | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 slowing | punct |
| 16 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 slowing | nsubj |
| 17 | slowing | slow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 getting | conj |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 slowing | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 friends | punct |
| 20 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 drifting | nsubj |
| 21 | drifting | drift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 slowing | conj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 drifting | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 children | cc |
| 24 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 friends | conj |
| 25 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 friends | acl |
| 26 | home | home | ADV | _ | 25 leaving | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 live | 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 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | live | present | Grown ups | changes | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through change=Location | ||||
| 3 | not stop | can | things = thing | changes not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality change=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | get | gerund | Grown ups not said here | old property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | slow down | gerund | parents | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | drift away | gerund | friends and children | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | leave | gerund | friends and children not said here | home property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:3.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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