The only child: a quiet house, sentence 26
On holiday in Spain, Kwabena from Croydon is the only kid in his family; Mum and Dad want to read by the pool.
Who acts: Kwabena, Mum · What happens: be, want, read · To what, where: only kid, family, holiday
This is a sentence of the lesson «The only child: a quiet house» 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 (Kwabena, Mum), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 holiday | case |
| 2 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 want | obl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Spain | case |
| 4 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 holiday | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Kwabena | punct |
| 6 | Kwabena | Kwabena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 kid | nsubj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Croydon | case |
| 8 | Croydon | Croydon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Kwabena | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 kid | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 kid | det |
| 11 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 kid | amod |
| 12 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 want | parataxis |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 family | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 family | nmod:poss |
| 15 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kid | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 Mum | punct |
| 17 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 want | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Dad | cc |
| 19 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Mum | conj |
| 20 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 read | mark |
| 22 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 want | xcomp |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 pool | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 pool | det |
| 25 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 read | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 want | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Kwabena from Croydon | the only kid | kid's family | tree rules | |||
| 2 | want | present | Mum and Dad | holiday in Spain | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | read not said to happen | to-infinitive | Mum and Dad not said here | by the pool | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «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:498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house.lesson:26.
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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