The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move to America, an interview and a book, sentence 1

Their weddings, babies and funerals are public events shown on television, but they are also a real family with real feelings, quarrels and sadness, like any other.

Who acts: events, Their · What happens: show, be, wed · To what, where: weddings, television, real family

This is a sentence of the lesson «The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move to America, an interview and a book» 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 (events, Their), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 weddings	nmod:poss
2	weddings	wedding	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shown	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 babies	punct
4	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 weddings	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 funerals	cc
6	funerals	funeral	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 weddings	conj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 shown	aux:pass
8	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 events	amod
9	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shown	nsubj
10	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 television	case
12	television	television	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shown	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 family	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 family	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 family	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 family	cop
17	also	also	ADV	_	20 family	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 family	det
19	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 family	amod
20	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shown	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 feelings	case
22	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 feelings	amod
23	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 family	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 quarrels	punct
25	quarrels	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 feelings	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sadness	cc
27	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 feelings	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 other	punct
29	like	like	ADP	_	31 other	case
30	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	31 other	det
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 family	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 shown	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	show	present · passive		Their weddings and babies and funerals	television		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	is a	present	events = event	a real family		with real feelings and quarrels and sadness; like any other	tree rules
3	wed		Their = they				nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=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:044-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book.lesson:1.

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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