Adults who help and adults who don't, sentence 20
When a child tells a parent, the most helpful parent listens, thanks them and contacts the school.
Who acts: child, helpful parent · What happens: tell, listen, thank, contact · To what, where: parent, children, school · 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 (child, helpful parent), 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 | _ | 4 tells | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 child | det |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tells | nsubj |
| 4 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 listens | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 parent | det |
| 6 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tells | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tells | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 parent | det |
| 9 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 10 helpful | advmod |
| 10 | helpful | helpful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 parent | amod |
| 11 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 listens | nsubj |
| 12 | listens | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thanks | punct |
| 14 | thanks | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 listens | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thanks | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 contacts | cc |
| 17 | contacts | contact | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 listens | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 school | det |
| 19 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 contacts | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 listens | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | a child | a parent | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | listen | present | the helpful parent | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | thank speech: thank | present | the helpful parent not said here | children = child | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | contact | present | the helpful parent not said here | the school | tree rules |
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:20.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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