Soft words for hard things: relations and family, sentence 4
"Single-parent family" means a family where one parent raises the children.
Who acts: parent family, one parent · What happens: mean, raise · To what, where: family, children
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 (parent family, one parent), 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 family | punct |
| 2 | Single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 parent | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Single | punct |
| 4 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 family | compound |
| 5 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | nsubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 family | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 family | det |
| 9 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obj |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 raises | advmod |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 parent | nummod |
| 12 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 raises | nsubj |
| 13 | raises | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 family | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 children | det |
| 15 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 raises | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | parent family | a family | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Topic | ||||
| 2 | raise | present | one parent | the children | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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:euphemisms:013-relations-and-family.lesson:4.
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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