The only child: a quiet house, sentence 37
Only children often learn to make friends fast, because they want a playmate.
Who acts: children, friends · What happens: learn, make, want · To what, where: friends, playmate
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, friends), 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 learn | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 learn | advmod |
| 4 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 learn | xcomp |
| 7 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 make | obj |
| 8 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 make | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 want | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 want | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 want | nsubj |
| 12 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 learn | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 playmate | det |
| 14 | playmate | playmate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 want | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 learn | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | present | children | often property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | children not said here | friends | fast property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product | |||
| 3 | want | present | friends = friend | a playmate | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot playmate=Theme |
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:37.
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 ×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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