White lies and kind silence, sentence 17
Families decide how to handle traditions like the tooth fairy or Father Christmas, so do not spoil them for younger children.
Who acts: Families · What happens: decide, handle, not spoil · To what, where: traditions · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «White lies and kind silence» 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 (Families), 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 | Families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 decide | nsubj |
| 2 | decide | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 handle | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 handle | mark |
| 5 | handle | handle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 decide | ccomp |
| 6 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 handle | obj |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 fairy | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fairy | det |
| 9 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fairy | compound |
| 10 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 traditions | nmod |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 Father | cc |
| 12 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 fairy | appos |
| 13 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Father | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 spoil | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 spoil | advmod |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 spoil | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 spoil | advmod |
| 18 | spoil | spoil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 decide | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 spoil | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 children | case |
| 21 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 children | amod |
| 22 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 spoil | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 decide | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | present | Families | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | handle not said to happen | to-infinitive | traditions | like the tooth fairy | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tradition=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not spoil | infinitive · do-support | Families not said here | traditions = tradition | for younger children | 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:196-white-lies-and-kind-silence.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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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