Family game night, sentence 21
Older people can surprise you, because they bring skills and experience from their whole lives.
Who acts: Older people, people · What happens: surprise, bring · To what, where: you, skills, whole lives
This is a sentence of the lesson «Family game night» 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 (Older people, people), 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 | Older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 surprise | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 surprise | aux |
| 4 | surprise | surprise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 surprise | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bring | punct |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 bring | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bring | nsubj |
| 9 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 surprise | advcl |
| 10 | skills | skill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bring | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 experience | cc |
| 12 | experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 skills | conj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 lives | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 lives | nmod:poss |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lives | amod |
| 16 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bring | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 surprise | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surprise | can | Older people | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | bring | present | people | skills and experience | people's whole lives | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent skill=Theme from life=Initial_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.
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:425-family-game-night.lesson:21.
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): no change. 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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