The only child: a quiet house, sentence 28

And in Vancouver, when Hiroshi's mom asks if he wants a brother or sister, he says, «Nah, I'd have to share my Switch.» Then at bedtime: «Would they be younger?» Mixed feelings are normal, and the decision is the parents'.

Who acts: mom, child, brothers, Mixed feelings, decision · What happens: ask, want, say, have, share, be · To what, where: Vancouver, brother, Switch · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (mom, child, brothers, Mixed feelings), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 asks	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Vancouver	case
3	Vancouver	Vancouver	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 asks	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 asks	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 asks	advmod
6	Hiroshi	Hiroshi	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 mom	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Hiroshi	case
8	mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asks	nsubj
9	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 says	advcl
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 wants	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wants	nsubj
12	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 asks	ccomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 brother	det
14	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wants	obj
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 sister	cc
16	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 brother	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 says	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 says	nsubj
19	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Nah	punct
21	«	«	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct
22	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	26 have	discourse
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Nah	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 have	nsubj
25	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 have	aux
26	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 says	ccomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 share	mark
28	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 have	xcomp
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 Switch	nmod:poss
30	Switch	switch	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 share	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 asks	punct
32	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 asks	punct
33	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 bedtime	advmod
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 bedtime	case
35	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asks	obl
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 asks	punct
37	«	«	PUNCT	_	41 younger	punct
38	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 younger	aux
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 younger	nsubj
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 younger	cop
41	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 asks	conj
42	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 asks	punct
43	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 asks	punct
44	Mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 feelings	amod
45	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 normal	nsubj
46	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 normal	cop
47	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 asks	ccomp
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 parents	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 parents	cc
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 decision	det
51	decision	decision	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 parents	nsubj
52	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 parents	cop
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 parents	det
54	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 normal	conj
55	'	's	PART	_	54 parents	case
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	47 normal	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Hiroshi's mom		Vancouver	at bedtime	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want a condition, not said to happen	present	child	a brother or sister			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot brother=Theme
3	say speech: assert	present	child				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have in a quote	would	child				tree rules
5	share in a quote	to-infinitive	child not said here	my Switch			tree rules
6	is in a quote	would	brothers = brother			young property	tree rules
7	mix	participle					vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
8	is	present	Mixed feelings			normal property	tree rules
9	is	present	the decision			's the parents	tree rules

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:28.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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