Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper, sentence 25

Grown-ups can hold grudges for years, sometimes after forgetting what started them.

Who acts: Grown ups · What happens: hold, forget, start · To what, where: grudges

This is a sentence of the lesson «Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper» 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 (Grown ups), 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	Grown	grow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ups	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Grown	punct
3	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hold	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hold	aux
5	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	grudges	grudge	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hold	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 years	case
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hold	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 forgetting	punct
10	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 forgetting	advmod
11	after	after	SCONJ	_	12 forgetting	mark
12	forgetting	forget	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 hold	advcl
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 forgetting	obj
14	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 what	acl:relcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 started	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hold	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hold	can	Grown ups	grudges	year		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grudge=Theme
2	forget	gerund	Grown ups not said here			sometimes property	tree rules
3	start	past		grudges = grudge			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality

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:483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.lesson:25.

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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