Soft words for hard things: relations and family, sentence 17
"On a break" means a couple has split up for a while and may get back together.
Who acts: couple · What happens: mean, split up, get back · To what, where: break · 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 (couple), 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 | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 2 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 break | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 break | det |
| 4 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obl |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 break | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 couple | det |
| 8 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 split | nsubj |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 split | aux |
| 10 | split | split | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 means | ccomp |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 split | compound:prt |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 while | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 while | det |
| 14 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 split | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 get | cc |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 get | aux |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 split | conj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 together | advmod |
| 19 | together | together | ADV | _ | 17 get | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | a break | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | split up | present · perfect | a couple | while | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | get back | may | a couple not said here | together property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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:euphemisms:013-relations-and-family.lesson:17.
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 ×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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