Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments, sentence 3
That is because babies need a lot of care, not because the parents love the older child less.
Who acts: That, babies, parents · What happens: be, need, not love · To what, where: lot, older child
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 (That, babies, 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 is | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 need | mark |
| 4 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 need | nsubj |
| 5 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 is | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lot | det |
| 7 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 need | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 care | case |
| 9 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lot | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 love | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 love | advmod |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 love | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 parents | det |
| 14 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 love | nsubj |
| 15 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 need | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 child | det |
| 17 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 child | amod |
| 18 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 love | obj |
| 19 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 love | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | That | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | need | present | babies | a lot of care | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lot=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not love | present | the parents | the older child | less property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |
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:3.
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): R7-rel-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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