Family changes and grief, sentence 6
Grandparents' stories about the old days are family history that only they can tell, so you listen and ask questions.
Who acts: stories, you · What happens: be, tell, listen, ask · To what, where: family history, questions · 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 (stories, you), 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 | Grandparents | grandparent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stories | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 1 Grandparents | case |
| 3 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 history | nsubj |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 days | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 days | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 days | amod |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stories | nmod |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 history | cop |
| 9 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 history | compound |
| 10 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 tell | obj |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 they | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 tell | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 tell | aux |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 history | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 listen | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 listen | advmod |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 listen | nsubj |
| 19 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 history | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ask | cc |
| 21 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 listen | conj |
| 22 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 ask | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 history | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Grandparents's stories about the old days | family history | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | can | stories = story | family history | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | listen | present | you | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | questions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |
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:6.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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