Younger children, losing and practising, sentence 0

Little children are still learning how to play: they cry when they lose, wander off at the park and put small things in their mouths, so an older child plays gently and keeps them in sight.

Who acts: Little children, children, older child · What happens: learn, play, cry, lose, wander off, put · To what, where: park, small things, mouths, children, sight

This is a sentence of the lesson «Younger children, losing and practising» 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 (Little children, children, older 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 children	amod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 learning	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 learning	aux
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 learning	advmod
5	learning	learn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 play	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 play	mark
8	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 learning	xcomp
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 cry	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cry	nsubj
11	cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 play	ccomp
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 lose	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 lose	nsubj
14	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 cry	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wander	punct
16	wander	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 cry	conj
17	off	off	ADP	_	16 wander	compound:prt
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 park	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 park	det
20	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wander	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 put	cc
22	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 wander	conj
23	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 things	amod
24	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 put	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 mouths	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mouths	nmod:poss
27	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 put	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 plays	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	33 plays	advmod
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 child	det
31	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 child	amod
32	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 plays	nsubj
33	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 learning	advcl
34	gently	gently	ADV	_	33 plays	advmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 keeps	cc
36	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 plays	conj
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 keeps	obj
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 sight	case
39	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 keeps	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 learning	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	present · progressive	Little children			still		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	play	to-infinitive	Little children not said here					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	cry speech: express	present	children = child					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	lose	present	children = child					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	wander off	present	children = child not said here		the park			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at park=Trajectory
6	put	present	children = child not said here	small things	children's mouths			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Theme in mouth=Destination
7	play	present	a older child				gently property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	keep	present	a older child not said here	children = child	sight			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in sight=Location

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.

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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): R6-punct-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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