Being a good grown-up, sentence 8
Friendships change as people move, start jobs and have families; some fade, new ones grow, and old friends can sometimes pick up again as if no time had passed.
Who acts: Friendships, people, some, new ones, old friends, time · What happens: change, move, start, have, fade, grow · To what, where: jobs, families
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 (Friendships, people, some, new ones), 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 | Friendships | friendship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 change | nsubj |
| 2 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 move | mark |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 move | nsubj |
| 5 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 change | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 start | punct |
| 7 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 move | conj |
| 8 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 start | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 have | cc |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 move | conj |
| 11 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 have | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 fade | punct |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 fade | nsubj |
| 14 | fade | fade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 change | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 grow | punct |
| 16 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ones | amod |
| 17 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 grow | nsubj |
| 18 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 fade | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 pick | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 pick | cc |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 friends | amod |
| 22 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 pick | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 pick | aux |
| 24 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | _ | 25 pick | advmod |
| 25 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 change | conj |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 pick | compound:prt |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 pick | advmod |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 passed | mark |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 33 passed | mark |
| 30 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 31 time | det |
| 31 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 passed | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 passed | aux |
| 33 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 pick | advcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 change | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present | Friendships | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | move | present | people | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | start | present | people not said here | jobs | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | have | present | people not said here | families | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Patient | ||||
| 5 | fade | present | some | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | grow | present | new ones | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | pick up | can | old friends | again | sometimes property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||
| 8 | pass | past · perfect | no time | vn occur-48.3-1 «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:8.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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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