Birthday parties, sentence 12
The birthday child blows out the candles alone, because it is their special moment.
Who acts: birthday child, winner · What happens: blow out, be · To what, where: candles, special moment
This is a sentence of the lesson «Birthday parties» 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 (birthday child, winner), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 child | det |
| 2 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 child | compound |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blows | nsubj |
| 4 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 blows | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 candles | det |
| 7 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 blows | obj |
| 8 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 4 blows | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 blows | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 moment | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 moment | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 moment | cop |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 moment | nmod:poss |
| 14 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 moment | amod |
| 15 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blows | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow out | present | the birthday child | the candles | alone property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent candle=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | present | winner | children's special moment | tree rules |
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:130-birthday-parties.lesson:12.
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): R5-strong ×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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