Greeting neighbours and new people, sentence 6
Moving house is hard, and a welcome, like a card or some biscuits, helps a new family feel at home.
Who acts: Moving, welcome, new family · What happens: move, be, help, feel · To what, where: house, home
This is a sentence of the lesson «Greeting neighbours and new people» of the everyday 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 (Moving, welcome, new family), 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 | Moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 hard | csubj |
| 2 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Moving | obj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hard | cop |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 helps | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 welcome | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 welcome | det |
| 8 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 helps | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 helps | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 card | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 card | det |
| 12 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 welcome | nmod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 biscuits | cc |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 biscuits | det |
| 15 | biscuits | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 card | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 card | punct |
| 17 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hard | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 family | det |
| 19 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 family | amod |
| 20 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 feel | nsubj |
| 21 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 helps | xcomp |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 home | case |
| 23 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 feel | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | gerund | house | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Moving | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | help | present | a welcome like a card or some biscuits | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | feel | infinitive | a new family | home | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at home=Location |
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:everyday:123-neighbours-and-new-people.lesson:6.
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. 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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