Every family is different, sentence 29

Older children in big families often help a lot, but they still need breakfast, sleep and time for themselves; if it gets too much, tell a parent or a teacher.

Who acts: Older children, family, child · What happens: help, need, get, tell · To what, where: lot, breakfast, parent · 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 (Older children, family, child), 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 children	amod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 help	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 families	case
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 families	amod
5	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 children	nmod
6	often	often	ADV	_	7 help	advmod
7	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lot	det
9	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 help	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 need	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 need	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 need	nsubj
13	still	still	ADV	_	14 need	advmod
14	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 help	conj
15	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 need	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sleep	punct
17	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 breakfast	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 time	cc
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 breakfast	conj
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 themselves	case
21	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 time	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 tell	punct
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 gets	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 gets	nsubj
25	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 tell	advcl
26	too	too	ADV	_	27 much	advmod
27	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 gets	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 gets	punct
29	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 help	parataxis
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 parent	det
31	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tell	obj
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 teacher	cc
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 teacher	det
34	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 parent	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 help	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	Older children in big families	a lot			often property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Beneficiary
2	need	present	family	breakfast and sleep and time for family		still		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot breakfast=Theme
3	get a condition, not said to happen	present	child				much property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive			a parent or a teacher			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient

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:29.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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