Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad, sentence 5
Money can buy help, but it can't buy time with Dad, and grown-ups don't always notice that, so Lottie can tell him: «I miss you.»
Who acts: Money, grown ups, Lottie · What happens: buy, not buy, not notice, tell, miss · To what, where: help, that, dad · 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 (Money, grown ups, Lottie), 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 | Money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 buy | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 buy | aux |
| 3 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 buy | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 buy | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 buy | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 buy | nsubj |
| 8 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 buy | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 buy | advmod |
| 10 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 buy | conj |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 buy | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 Dad | case |
| 13 | Dad | Dad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 buy | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 grown | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 notice | cc |
| 16 | grown | grown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ups | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 grown | punct |
| 18 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 notice | nsubj |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 notice | aux |
| 20 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 notice | advmod |
| 21 | always | always | ADV | _ | 22 notice | advmod |
| 22 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 buy | conj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 notice | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 that | punct |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 tell | advmod |
| 26 | Lottie | Lottie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 tell | nsubj |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 tell | aux |
| 28 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 notice | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 tell | iobj |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 miss | punct |
| 31 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 33 miss | punct |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 miss | nsubj |
| 33 | miss | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 tell | ccomp |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 miss | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 miss | punct |
| 36 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 33 miss | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | can | Money | help | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not buy | can | Money | time | with Dad | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | not notice | present · do-support | grown ups | that | always property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | can | Lottie | dad | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | miss in a quote | present | Lottie | dad | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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:5.
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 ×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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