Cold parents: always on the phone, sentence 41
If you're not sure whether a quiet parent cares, you can notice what they do and you can ask.
Who acts: you, quiet parent, parents · What happens: not be, care, notice, do, ask · 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 (you, quiet parent, parents), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 sure | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 sure | nsubj |
| 3 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sure | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 sure | advmod |
| 5 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 notice | advcl |
| 6 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 10 cares | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 parent | det |
| 8 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 parent | amod |
| 9 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cares | nsubj |
| 10 | cares | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sure | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cares | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 notice | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 notice | aux |
| 14 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 do | obj |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 do | nsubj |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 notice | ccomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ask | cc |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 ask | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 ask | aux |
| 21 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 notice | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 notice | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a condition, not said to happen | present | you | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | care | present | a quiet parent | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | notice | can | you | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | do | present | parents = parent | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | can | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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:41.
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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