The only child: a quiet house, sentence 27
By day two he's teamed up with two German kids using hand signals: only children often learn to make friends fast.
Who acts: Kwabena, two German kids, children · What happens: team up, use, learn, make · To what, where: hand signals, friends
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, two German kids, children), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 day | case |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 teamed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | flat |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 teamed | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 teamed | aux |
| 6 | teamed | team | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 learn | advcl |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 teamed | compound:prt |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 kids | case |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 kids | nummod |
| 10 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 kids | amod |
| 11 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 teamed | obl |
| 12 | using | use | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 kids | acl |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 signals | compound |
| 14 | signals | signal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 using | obj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 children | punct |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 children | advmod |
| 17 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 learn | nsubj |
| 18 | often | often | ADV | _ | 19 learn | advmod |
| 19 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 make | mark |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 learn | xcomp |
| 22 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 make | obj |
| 23 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 make | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 teamed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | team up | present · perfect | Kwabena | day | with two German kids | vn conspire-71 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with kid=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | use | gerund | two German kids not said here | hand signals | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Patient | ||||
| 3 | learn | infinitive | children | often property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | children not said here | friends | fast property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product |
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: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): R6-punct-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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