Every family is different, sentence 19
Kwesi's family is staying home at half-term because Dad lost his job, and when his mate Seb asks where he's going, Kwesi mumbles «dunno yet».
Who acts: family, Dad, mate, Kwesi · What happens: stay, lose, ask, go, mumble, job · To what, where: half term, job, dunno · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Every family is different» 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 (family, Dad, mate, Kwesi), 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 | Kwesi | Kwesi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 family | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Kwesi | case |
| 3 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 staying | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 staying | aux |
| 5 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 staying | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 term | case |
| 8 | half | half | NOUN | _ | 10 term | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 term | punct |
| 10 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 staying | obl |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 lost | mark |
| 12 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lost | nsubj |
| 13 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 staying | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 job | nmod:poss |
| 15 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lost | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 mumbles | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lost | cc |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 asks | advmod |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mate | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 asks | nsubj |
| 21 | Seb | Seb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 mate | appos |
| 22 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 mumbles | advcl |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 going | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 going | nsubj |
| 25 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 going | aux |
| 26 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 asks | ccomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 mumbles | punct |
| 28 | Kwesi | Kwesi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 mumbles | nsubj |
| 29 | mumbles | mumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 staying | conj |
| 30 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 31 dunno | punct |
| 31 | dunno | dunno | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 mumbles | obj |
| 32 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 31 dunno | advmod |
| 33 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 31 dunno | punct |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 staying | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present · progressive | Kwesi's family | half term | home property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at term=Location | |||
| 2 | lose | past | Dad | Kwesi's job | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | present | Kwesi's mate | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go | present · progressive | mate | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | mumble speech: other | present | Kwesi | dunno | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dunno=Topic | ||||
| 6 | job | Kwesi | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=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:486-every-family-is-different.lesson:19.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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