The only child: a quiet house, sentence 33
Only children often invent games, voices and imaginary siblings; this is common and healthy.
Who acts: children, this · What happens: invent, be · To what, where: games
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 (children, this), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 children | advmod |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 invent | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 invent | advmod |
| 4 | invent | invent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 invent | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 voices | punct |
| 7 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 games | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 siblings | cc |
| 9 | imaginary | imaginary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 siblings | amod |
| 10 | siblings | sibling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 voices | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 common | punct |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 common | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 common | cop |
| 14 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 invent | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 healthy | cc |
| 16 | healthy | healthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 common | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 invent | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invent | present | children | games and voices and imaginary siblings | often property | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Result | |||
| 2 | is | present | this | common property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | this not said here | 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:33.
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 ×2. 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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