Warm parents and strict parents, sentence 36
Strict parents often find a middle way if you ask nicely, like going to a party but coming home early.
Who acts: Strict parents, you · What happens: find, ask, go, come · To what, where: middle way, party
This is a sentence of the lesson «Warm parents and strict parents» 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 (Strict parents, you), 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 | Strict | strict | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 parents | amod |
| 2 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 find | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 find | advmod |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 6 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 way | amod |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obj |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 ask | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 ask | nsubj |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | advcl |
| 11 | nicely | nicely | ADV | _ | 10 ask | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ask | punct |
| 13 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 14 going | mark |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 ask | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 party | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 party | det |
| 17 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 going | obl |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 coming | cc |
| 19 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 going | conj |
| 20 | home | home | ADV | _ | 19 coming | advmod |
| 21 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 coming | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | Strict parents | a middle way | often property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen | present | you | nicely property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go | gerund | you not said here | a party | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to party=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | come | gerund | you not said here | early, home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:493-warm-parents-and-strict-parents.lesson:36.
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): no change. 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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