Family changes and grief, sentence 11
After a pet dies, you wait a while and talk with your family before getting a new one; you need time to grieve, and a new pet does not replace the old one.
Who acts: pet, you, new pet · What happens: die, wait, talk, get, need, grieve · To what, where: new one, old one
This is a sentence of the lesson «Family changes and grief» 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 (pet, you, new pet), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 dies | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pet | det |
| 3 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dies | nsubj |
| 4 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wait | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wait | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 wait | nsubj |
| 7 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 while | det |
| 9 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wait | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 talk | cc |
| 11 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wait | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 family | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 family | nmod:poss |
| 14 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 talk | obl |
| 15 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 16 getting | mark |
| 16 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 talk | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 one | det |
| 18 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 one | amod |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 getting | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 need | punct |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 need | nsubj |
| 22 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wait | parataxis |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 need | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 grieve | mark |
| 25 | grieve | grieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 time | acl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 replace | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 replace | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 pet | det |
| 29 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 pet | amod |
| 30 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 replace | nsubj |
| 31 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 replace | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 replace | advmod |
| 33 | replace | replace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wait | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 one | det |
| 35 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 one | amod |
| 36 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 replace | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present | a pet | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | wait | present | you | while | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | talk | infinitive | you not said here | with your family | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with family=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | get | gerund | you not said here | a new one | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | need | present | you | time | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 6 | grieve | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | not replace | present · do-support | a new pet | the old one | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Co-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:214-family-changes-and-grief.lesson:11.
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 ×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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