Family changes and grief, sentence 18
When her parents split up, a girl in California believed it was her fault and stopped seeing her friends; it was not her fault at all, and talking to both parents helped her understand.
Who acts: parents, girl, sadness, talking · What happens: split up, believe, be, stop, see, not be · To what, where: fault, friends, all, girl · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (parents, girl, sadness, talking), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 split | mark |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 parents | nmod:poss |
| 3 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 split | nsubj |
| 4 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 believed | advcl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 split | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 split | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 believed | nsubj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 California | case |
| 10 | California | California | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 girl | nmod |
| 11 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fault | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fault | cop |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 fault | nmod:poss |
| 15 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 believed | ccomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stopped | cc |
| 17 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 believed | conj |
| 18 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 stopped | xcomp |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 friends | nmod:poss |
| 20 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 seeing | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 fault | punct |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 fault | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 fault | cop |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 fault | advmod |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 fault | nmod:poss |
| 26 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 believed | parataxis |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 all | case |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 fault | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 helped | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 helped | cc |
| 31 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 helped | csubj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 parents | case |
| 33 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 parents | det |
| 34 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 talking | obl |
| 35 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 believed | conj |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 helped | obj |
| 37 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 helped | xcomp |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | split up | past | person's parents | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | believe | past | a girl in California | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | sadness | person's fault | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stop | past | a girl in California not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | see | gerund | a girl in California not said here | person's friends | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | not is a | past | sadness | person's fault | all | tree rules | |||
| 7 | talk | gerund | to both parents | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to parent=Co-Agent | |||||
| 8 | help | past | talking | girl | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 9 | understand | infinitive | girl not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:18.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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