Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries, sentence 2
Firstly, children need time to eat.
Who acts: children · What happens: need, eat
This is a sentence of the lesson «Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries» of the english 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 (children), 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 | Firstly | firstly | ADV | _ | 4 need | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Firstly | punct |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 need | nsubj |
| 4 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 need | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 eat | mark |
| 7 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 time | acl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 need | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | children | time | firstly property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | children not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:english:024-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries.lesson:2.
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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