Growing, seeing and hearing, sentence 7
A short child may grow a lot later, and a tall child may stop growing earlier.
Who acts: short child, tall child · What happens: grow, stop
This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing, seeing and hearing» 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 (short child, tall child), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 child | det |
| 2 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 child | amod |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grow | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 grow | aux |
| 5 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lot | det |
| 7 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 later | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 grow | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stop | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stop | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 child | det |
| 12 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 child | amod |
| 13 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stop | nsubj |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 stop | aux |
| 15 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 grow | conj |
| 16 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 stop | xcomp |
| 17 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 growing | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grow | 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 | grow | may | a short child | late property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stop | may | a tall child | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | grow | gerund | a tall child not said here | early property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing.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): no change. 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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