Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad, sentence 31
Telling a busy parent «I miss you» helps, because grown-ups don't always notice.
Who acts: I, Telling, grown ups · What happens: tell, miss, help, grow, not notice · To what, where: busy parent · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad» 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 (I, Telling, 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 | Telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 helps | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 parent | det |
| 3 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 parent | amod |
| 4 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Telling | iobj |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 miss | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 miss | nsubj |
| 7 | miss | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Telling | ccomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 miss | obj |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 miss | punct |
| 10 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 notice | punct |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 notice | mark |
| 13 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 ups | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 grown | punct |
| 15 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 notice | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 notice | aux |
| 17 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 notice | advmod |
| 18 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 19 notice | advmod |
| 19 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 helps | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | a busy parent | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | miss in a quote | present | I | a busy parent = parent | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | help | present | Telling | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | not notice | present · do-support | grown ups | always property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad.lesson:31.
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): R6-punct-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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