Cold parents: always on the phone, sentence 7
Some parents are cool or distant: they say little and rarely praise or hug.
Who acts: parents · What happens: be, say, praise, hug · To what, where: little · 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), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 parents | det |
| 2 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cool | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cool | cop |
| 4 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 distant | cc |
| 6 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cool | conj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 say | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 say | nsubj |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cool | parataxis |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 say | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 praise | cc |
| 12 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 13 praise | advmod |
| 13 | praise | praise | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 say | conj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 hug | cc |
| 15 | hug | hug | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 praise | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cool | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | some parents | cool property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | some parents not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | parents = parent | little | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent little=Topic | ||||
| 4 | praise | present | parents = parent not said here | rarely property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | hug | present | parents = parent not said here | vn marry-36.2 «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:7.
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): R7-rel-agree ×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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