Cold parents: always on the phone, sentence 16

Families can drift apart through screens without noticing, and anyone can suggest «no phones at dinner», as long as it's for everyone, Harvey included.

Who acts: Families, anyone, dinner, Harvey · What happens: drift apart, notice, suggest, be, include · To what, where: screens, phones, dinner

This is a sentence of the lesson «Cold parents: always on the phone» 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 (Families, anyone, dinner, Harvey), 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	Families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drift	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 drift	aux
3	drift	drift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	apart	apart	ADV	_	3 drift	advmod
5	through	through	ADP	_	6 screens	case
6	screens	screen	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drift	obl
7	without	without	SCONJ	_	8 noticing	mark
8	noticing	notice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 drift	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 suggest	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 suggest	cc
11	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 suggest	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 suggest	aux
13	suggest	suggest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 drift	conj
14	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 phones	punct
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 phones	det
16	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 suggest	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 dinner	case
18	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 phones	nmod
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 phones	punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 included	punct
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 long	advmod
22	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 included	advmod
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 everyone	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 everyone	nsubj
25	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 everyone	cop
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 everyone	case
27	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	30 included	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 everyone	punct
29	Harvey	Harvey	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 included	nsubj
30	included	include	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 suggest	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drift	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drift apart	can	Families		screens	apart property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through screen=Trajectory
2	notice	gerund	Families not said here				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	suggest speech: suggest	can	anyone	no phones	dinner		vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent phone=Topic
4	is	present	dinner			for everyone	tree rules
5	include	past	Harvey			long property	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: 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:495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone.lesson:16.

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. 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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