Kindness to animals, sentence 17
Grown-ups say two people «are an item» when they are a couple, going out together; parents «divorcing» means their marriage is ending and they will live apart, which is never the child's fault.
Who acts: Grown ups, two people, people, marriage, ups · What happens: say, be, go out, divorce, mean, end · To what, where: item, couple, fault · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Kindness to animals» 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 (Grown ups, two people, people, marriage), 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 | Grown | grow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ups | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Grown | punct |
| 3 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 means | parataxis |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 people | nummod |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 item | nsubj |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 item | punct |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 item | cop |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 item | det |
| 10 | item | item | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | ccomp |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 item | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 couple | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 couple | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 couple | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 couple | det |
| 16 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 going | punct |
| 18 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 couple | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADV | _ | 18 going | advmod |
| 20 | together | together | ADV | _ | 18 going | advmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 parents | punct |
| 22 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 couple | conj |
| 23 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 24 divorcing | punct |
| 24 | divorcing | divorce | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 means | advcl |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 24 divorcing | punct |
| 26 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 28 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ending | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 ending | aux |
| 30 | ending | end | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 means | ccomp |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 live | cc |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 live | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 live | aux |
| 34 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 ending | conj |
| 35 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 34 live | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 fault | punct |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 fault | nsubj |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 fault | cop |
| 39 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 43 fault | advmod |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 child | det |
| 41 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 fault | nmod:poss |
| 42 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 41 child | case |
| 43 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 live | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Grown ups | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | two people | a item | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | people | a couple and parents | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go out | gerund | people not said here | out, together property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | divorce in a quote | gerund | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 7 | end | present · progressive | people's marriage | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | live | future | ups = up | apart property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | not is a | present | the child's fault | tree rules | |||||
| 10 | marry | people | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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:207-kindness-to-animals.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): R6-punct-agree ×3. 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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