Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour, sentence 7
"Empty nester" means a parent whose children have grown up and left home.
Who acts: Empty nester, children · What happens: mean, grow up, leave · To what, where: parent
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour» 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 (Empty nester, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 nester | punct |
| 2 | Empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 nester | amod |
| 3 | nester | nester | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 nester | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 parent | det |
| 7 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 8 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 9 children | nmod:poss |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 grown | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 grown | aux |
| 11 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 parent | acl:relcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 grown | compound:prt |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 left | cc |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 grown | conj |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 left | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 | Empty nester | a parent | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Topic | ||||
| 2 | grow up | present · perfect | children | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | leave | participle | children not said here | home property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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:euphemisms:014-family-and-behaviour.lesson:7.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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