Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad, sentence 39

Children whose staff do everyday jobs may never learn to cook or clean, so it's worth asking to learn.

Who acts: staff, Children, asking · What happens: do, not learn, cook, clean, be, ask · To what, where: everyday jobs

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 (staff, Children, asking), 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	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 learn	nsubj
2	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	3 staff	nmod:poss
3	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Children	acl:relcl
5	everyday	everyday	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 jobs	amod
6	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 do	obj
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 learn	aux
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 learn	advmod
9	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 cook	mark
11	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 learn	xcomp
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 clean	cc
13	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 cook	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 worth	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	18 worth	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 worth	expl
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 worth	cop
18	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 learn	parataxis
19	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 worth	csubj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 learn	mark
21	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 asking	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 learn	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present	staff	everyday jobs		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality
2	not learn	may	Children			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	cook	to-infinitive	Children not said here			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	clean	infinitive	Children not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	is	present	asking		worth property	tree rules
6	ask speech: ask	gerund				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	learn not said to happen	to-infinitive				vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=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:491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad.lesson:39.

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, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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