The only child: a quiet house, sentence 5
A short time alone is fine at 9 or 10 if it's short, a grown-up is close by, and there is a plan: who to call, who not to open the door to.
Who acts: short time, key, grown up, plan · What happens: be, grow, call, not open · To what, where: 9, door · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (short time, key, grown up, plan), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 2 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fine | nsubj |
| 4 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 time | advmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fine | cop |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 9 | case |
| 8 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 fine | obl |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 10 | cc |
| 10 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 9 | conj |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 short | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 short | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 short | cop |
| 14 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fine | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 close | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 up | det |
| 17 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 up | amod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 grown | punct |
| 19 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 close | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 close | cop |
| 21 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fine | conj |
| 22 | by | by | ADV | _ | 21 close | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 is | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 is | cc |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 is | expl |
| 26 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fine | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 plan | det |
| 28 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 is | nsubj |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 call | punct |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 call | nsubj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 call | mark |
| 32 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 plan | acl:relcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 open | punct |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 open | nsubj |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 open | advmod |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 open | mark |
| 37 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 call | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 door | det |
| 39 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 open | obj |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 open | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fine | 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 | a short time | 9 | fine property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | key | short property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | a grown up | close property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | present | a plan | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | call | to-infinitive | a plan | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | not open | to-infinitive | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=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:5.
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 ×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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