Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments, sentence 2
When a new baby arrives, parents spend hours feeding, changing and soothing it.
Who acts: new baby, parents · What happens: arrive, spend, feed, change, soothe · To what, where: baby
This is a sentence of the lesson «Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments» 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 (new baby, parents), 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 | _ | 5 arrives | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 baby | det |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 baby | amod |
| 4 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrives | nsubj |
| 5 | arrives | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 spend | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 spend | punct |
| 7 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 spend | nsubj |
| 8 | spend | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 spend | obj |
| 10 | feeding | feed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 spend | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 changing | punct |
| 12 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 feeding | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 soothing | cc |
| 14 | soothing | soothe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 feeding | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 soothing | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 spend | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | present | a new baby | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | spend | present | parents | hour | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | feed | gerund | parents not said here | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | change | gerund | parents not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | soothe | gerund | parents not said here | baby | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=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:292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments.lesson:2.
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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