Family changes and grief, sentence 4
A boy in Boston feels it was his fault that his grandpa died because he had been cross with him; his mum explains that thoughts and wishes can never make someone die, and they make a memory box together.
Who acts: boy, grandpa, mum, thoughts, someone · What happens: feel, be, die, explain, not make, not die · To what, where: fault, cross, memory box · 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 (boy, grandpa, mum, thoughts), 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 | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feels | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Boston | case |
| 4 | Boston | Boston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fault | expl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fault | cop |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 fault | nmod:poss |
| 9 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feels | ccomp |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 died | mark |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 grandpa | nmod:poss |
| 12 | grandpa | grandpa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 died | nsubj |
| 13 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fault | csubj |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 cross | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 cross | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 cross | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 cross | cop |
| 18 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 died | advcl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 cross | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 explains | punct |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mum | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 explains | nsubj |
| 24 | explains | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 feels | parataxis |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 make | mark |
| 26 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 make | nsubj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 wishes | cc |
| 28 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 thoughts | conj |
| 29 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 make | aux |
| 30 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 31 make | advmod |
| 31 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 explains | ccomp |
| 32 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 33 die | nsubj |
| 33 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 make | xcomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 make | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 make | cc |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 make | nsubj |
| 37 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 explains | conj |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 box | det |
| 39 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 box | compound |
| 40 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 make | obj |
| 41 | together | together | ADV | _ | 37 make | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 feels | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | a boy in Boston | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | a boy in Boston not said here | boy's fault | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | die | past | boy's grandpa | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | is a | past · perfect | grandpa | cross | with boy | tree rules | |||
| 5 | explain speech: assert | present | boy's mum | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | not make | can | thoughts and wishes | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | not die | infinitive | someone | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 8 | make | present | thoughts = thought | a memory box | together property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset box=Product |
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:4.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4, 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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