Cold parents: always on the phone, sentence 27

They sit for hours and say almost nothing, and Otto thinks Dad doesn't care.

Who acts: parents, Otto, Dad · What happens: sit, say, think, not care · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (parents, Otto, Dad), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sit	nsubj
2	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 hours	case
4	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sit	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 say	cc
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sit	conj
7	almost	almost	ADV	_	8 nothing	advmod
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 say	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thinks	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 thinks	cc
11	Otto	Otto	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 thinks	nsubj
12	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sit	conj
13	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 care	nsubj
14	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 care	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 care	advmod
16	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 thinks	ccomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sit	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	sit	present	parents = parent		hour	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	parents = parent not said here	nothing		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
3	think speech: other	present	Otto			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	not care	present · do-support	Dad			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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:27.

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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