Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad, sentence 34
Different amounts of money can make a friendship awkward, but neither friend is to blame, and talking honestly helps.
Who acts: Different amounts, friend, talking · What happens: make, be, talk, help, amount · To what, where: friendship, money
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 (Different amounts, friend, talking), 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 | Different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 amounts | amod |
| 2 | amounts | amount | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 make | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 money | case |
| 4 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 amounts | nmod |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 make | aux |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 friendship | det |
| 8 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 9 | awkward | awkward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 make | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 blame | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 blame | cc |
| 12 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 friend | det |
| 13 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 blame | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 blame | cop |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 blame | mark |
| 16 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 make | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 helps | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 helps | cc |
| 19 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 helps | csubj |
| 20 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 19 talking | advmod |
| 21 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 blame | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | can | Different amounts of money | a friendship | awkward property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friendship=Product | |||
| 2 | is | present | neither friend | blame property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | talk | gerund | honestly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | help | present | talking | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | amount | money | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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: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): 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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