Adults who help and adults who don't, sentence 15
A grown-up who notices when and where fights happen can often stop them by changing that time or place.
Who acts: fights, grown · What happens: notice, happen, stop, change · To what, where: fights · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Adults who help and adults who don't» 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 (fights, grown), 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 | 4 up | det |
| 2 | grown | grown-up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stop | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 up | punct |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 grown | compound |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 notices | nsubj |
| 6 | notices | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 up | acl:relcl |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 happen | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 happen | cc |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 when | conj |
| 10 | fights | fight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 happen | nsubj |
| 11 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 notices | ccomp |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 stop | aux |
| 13 | often | often | ADV | _ | 14 stop | advmod |
| 14 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stop | obj |
| 16 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 17 changing | mark |
| 17 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 stop | advcl |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 time | det |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 changing | obj |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 place | cc |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 time | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | present | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | happen | present | fights | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stop | can | grown | fights = fight | often property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality they=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | change | gerund | grown not said here | time | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont.lesson:15.
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 ×3. 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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