Soft words for hard things: relations and family, sentence 11
"We're not close" often means family members do not get on or rarely speak.
Who acts: We, family members · What happens: not be, mean, not get on, speak · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: relations and family» of the euphemisms 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 (We, family members), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 close | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 close | nsubj |
| 3 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 close | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 close | advmod |
| 5 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 means | ccomp |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 close | punct |
| 7 | often | often | ADV | _ | 8 means | advmod |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 members | compound |
| 10 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 get | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 get | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 get | advmod |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 means | ccomp |
| 14 | on | on | ADV | _ | 13 get | advmod |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 speak | cc |
| 16 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 17 speak | advmod |
| 17 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 get | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | We | close property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | often property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not get on | present · do-support | family members | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | infinitive | family members not said here | rarely property | vn talk-37.5 «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:euphemisms:013-relations-and-family.lesson:11.
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): 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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