Every family is different, sentence 34
A child asked a nosy question about their family can answer short and move on, and a good friend backs them up.
Who acts: child, nosy question, good friend · What happens: ask, answer, move on, back up · To what, where: nosy question, family
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 (child, nosy question, good friend), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 question | det |
| 5 | nosy | nosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 question | amod |
| 6 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | obj |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 answer | mark |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 family | nmod:poss |
| 9 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 question | nmod |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 answer | aux |
| 11 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 question | acl |
| 12 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 answer | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 move | cc |
| 14 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 answer | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADV | _ | 14 move | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 backs | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 backs | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 friend | det |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 friend | amod |
| 20 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 backs | nsubj |
| 21 | backs | back | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 backs | obj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 backs | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | a child | a nosy question family's family | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | can | a nosy question family's family not said here | short property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | move on | infinitive | a nosy question family's family not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | back up | present | a good friend | family | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:34.
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 ×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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