Cold parents: always on the phone, sentence 18
She feels like a parcel being collected.
Who acts: Rosa · What happens: feel, collect · To what, where: parcel
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 (Rosa), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 feels | nsubj |
| 2 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 parcel | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 parcel | det |
| 5 | parcel | parcel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 feels | obl |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 collected | aux:pass |
| 7 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 parcel | acl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 feels | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | Rosa | like a parcel | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like parcel=Theme | ||||
| 2 | collect | gerund · passive | a parcel not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» |
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:18.
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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