The only child: all the attention and wanting a sibling, sentence 10

Mum goes quiet, then says, «We wanted more babies, but it didn't happen, puiule» («puiule» is Romanian for «little chick», a pet name).

Who acts: Mum, We, it, puiule · What happens: go, say, want, not happen, be · To what, where: more babies · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The only child: all the attention and wanting a sibling» 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 (Mum, We, it, puiule), 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	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 goes	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 says	advmod
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 goes	parataxis
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wanted	punct
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 wanted	punct
9	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 wanted	nsubj
10	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 says	ccomp
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 babies	amod
12	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wanted	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 happen	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 happen	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 happen	nsubj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 happen	aux
17	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 happen	advmod
18	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wanted	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 puiule	punct
20	puiule	puiule	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 happen	conj
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 puiule	punct
22	(	(	PUNCT	_	27 Romanian	punct
23	«	«	PUNCT	_	24 puiule	punct
24	puiule	puiule	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Romanian	nsubj
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	24 puiule	punct
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 Romanian	cop
27	Romanian	romanian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 puiule	parataxis
28	for	for	ADP	_	31 chick	case
29	«	«	PUNCT	_	31 chick	punct
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 chick	amod
31	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Romanian	obl
32	»	»	PUNCT	_	31 chick	punct
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 name	punct
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 name	det
35	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 name	compound
36	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 chick	appos
37	)	)	PUNCT	_	27 Romanian	punct
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 goes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Mum			quiet property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	want in a quote	past	We	more babies			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot baby=Theme
4	not happen in a quote	past · do-support	it				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	puiule			for little chick; romanian property	tree rules

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:499-the-only-child-all-the-attention-and-wanting-a-sibling.lesson:10.

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, R6-punct-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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