The only child: a quiet house, sentence 39
It is normal to both want and not want a brother or sister; the decision belongs to the parents.
Who acts: decision · What happens: be, want, not want, belong · To what, where: brother
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 (decision), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 normal | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 normal | cop |
| 3 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 want | mark |
| 5 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 want | advmod |
| 6 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 normal | csubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 want | cc |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 want | advmod |
| 9 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 want | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 brother | det |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 want | obj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 sister | cc |
| 13 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brother | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 belongs | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 decision | det |
| 16 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 belongs | nsubj |
| 17 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 normal | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 parents | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 parents | det |
| 20 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 belongs | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 normal | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | normal property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | want | to-infinitive | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 3 | not want | infinitive | a brother or sister | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot brother=Theme | |||||
| 4 | belong | present | the decision | to the parents | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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:39.
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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