The parents walk in: how good parents react, sentence 22
Many parents tell a story from their own childhood to show that it happens to everyone.
Who acts: Many parents, it · What happens: tell, show, happen · To what, where: story, own childhood · 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 (Many parents, it), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 parents | amod |
| 2 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 childhood | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 childhood | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 childhood | amod |
| 9 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 story | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 show | mark |
| 11 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 childhood | acl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 happens | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 happens | nsubj |
| 14 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 show | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 everyone | case |
| 16 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 14 happens | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | Many parents | a story | families's own childhood | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | |||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | Many parents not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | happen | present | it | to everyone | 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:059-the-parents-walk-in-how-good-parents-react.lesson:22.
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. 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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