The parents walk in: how good parents react, sentence 20
Parents may ask to see the chat or the TV history to understand what happened and fix it, not to spy.
Who acts: Parents · What happens: ask, see, understand, happen, fix, not spy · To what, where: chat, history · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The parents walk in: how good parents react» 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 (Parents), 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 | Parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 ask | aux |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ask | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 chat | det |
| 7 | chat | chat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 history | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 history | det |
| 10 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 history | compound |
| 11 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chat | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 understand | mark |
| 13 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 see | advcl |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 happened | nsubj |
| 15 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 understand | ccomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fix | cc |
| 17 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ask | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fix | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 spy | punct |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 spy | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 spy | mark |
| 22 | spy | spy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ask | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | may | Parents | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | Parents not said here | the chat or the TV history | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chat=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | understand | to-infinitive | Parents not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | fix | infinitive | Parents not said here | history | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 6 | not spy | to-infinitive | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
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:059-the-parents-walk-in-how-good-parents-react.lesson:20.
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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