The only child: a quiet house, sentence 36
Only children often spend lots of time with adults, so they may talk like adults and find silly play harder at first.
Who acts: children, lots · What happens: spend, talk, find · To what, where: lots, silly play
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, lots), 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 spend | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 spend | advmod |
| 4 | spend | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spend | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lots | nmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 adults | case |
| 9 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spend | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 talk | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 talk | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 talk | nsubj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 talk | aux |
| 14 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 spend | parataxis |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 adults | case |
| 16 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 talk | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 find | cc |
| 18 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 talk | conj |
| 19 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 play | amod |
| 20 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 find | obj |
| 21 | harder | hard | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 find | advmod |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 first | case |
| 23 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 harder | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spend | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | present | children | lots of time | with adults; often property | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Asset | |||
| 2 | talk | may | lots = lot | like adults | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | find | infinitive | lots = lot not said here | silly play | hard property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent play=Topic |
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:36.
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): R5-strong ×2, 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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