The only child: a quiet house, sentence 35
«Spoilt only child» is a stereotype; many only children do plenty of chores.
Who acts: Spoilt child, many children · What happens: be, do · To what, where: stereotype, plenty
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 (Spoilt child, many 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 stereotype | punct |
| 2 | Spoilt | spoilt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 child | amod |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 child | advmod |
| 4 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stereotype | nsubj |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 child | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 stereotype | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 stereotype | det |
| 8 | stereotype | stereotype | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 children | amod |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 children | advmod |
| 12 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 do | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 stereotype | parataxis |
| 14 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 do | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 chores | case |
| 16 | chores | chore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 plenty | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stereotype | 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 | Spoilt child | a stereotype | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | present | many children | plenty of chores | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Eventuality |
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:35.
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, 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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