Cold parents: always on the phone, sentence 5

A clear ask often works: «Can you put your phone down for one minute?» In Cardiff, Lowri's mam works from home and says, «Not now, cariad, I'm on a call» («cariad» is Welsh for love) every single day, so Lowri stops asking.

Who acts: clear ask, you, mam, I, cariad, Lowri · What happens: work, put down, say, be, stop, ask · To what, where: phone, cariad, call, Welsh · 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 (clear ask, you, mam, I), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ask	det
2	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ask	amod
3	ask	ask	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 works	nsubj
4	often	often	ADV	_	5 works	advmod
5	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 put	punct
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 put	punct
8	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 put	aux
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 put	nsubj
10	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 works	ccomp
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 phone	nmod:poss
12	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obj
13	down	down	ADP	_	10 put	compound:prt
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 minute	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 minute	nummod
16	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 works	punct
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	25 works	punct
19	In	in	ADP	_	20 Cardiff	case
20	Cardiff	Cardiff	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 works	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 mam	punct
22	Lowri	Lowri	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 mam	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 Lowri	case
24	mam	mam	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 works	nsubj
25	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 works	parataxis
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 home	case
27	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 works	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 says	cc
29	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 works	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 says	punct
31	«	«	PUNCT	_	35 cariad	punct
32	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 now	advmod
33	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 cariad	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 now	punct
35	cariad	cariad	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 says	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 call	punct
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 call	nsubj
38	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 call	cop
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 call	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 call	det
41	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 works	parataxis
42	»	»	PUNCT	_	41 call	punct
43	(	(	PUNCT	_	48 Welsh	punct
44	«	«	PUNCT	_	45 cariad	punct
45	cariad	cariad	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 Welsh	nsubj
46	»	»	PUNCT	_	45 cariad	punct
47	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 Welsh	cop
48	Welsh	Welsh	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 call	parataxis
49	for	for	ADP	_	50 love	case
50	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 Welsh	obl
51	)	)	PUNCT	_	48 Welsh	punct
52	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	54 day	det
53	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 day	amod
54	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 Welsh	obl:unmarked
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 stops	punct
56	so	so	ADV	_	58 stops	advmod
57	Lowri	Lowri	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 stops	nsubj
58	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 works	conj
59	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	58 stops	xcomp
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 works	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	a clear ask				often property	tree rules
2	put down in a quote	can	you	your phone		minute		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent phone=Goal
3	work	present	Lowri's mam				from home; in Cardiff	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in cardiff=Theme
4	say speech: assert	present	Lowri's mam not said here	cariad				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	be speech: assert in a quote	present	I		a call			tree rules
6	is a	present	cariad	Welsh		day	for love	tree rules
7	stop	present	Lowri					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
8	ask speech: ask	gerund	Lowri not said here					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:5.

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, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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