The only child: all the attention and wanting a sibling, sentence 21

In Cardiff, Celestine, whose parents are both lawyers, says at a sleepover, «Statistically, we'll be tired tomorrow.» The other girls just want a pillow fight.

Who acts: parents, Celestine, we, other girls · What happens: be, say, want · To what, where: lawyers, Cardiff, pillow fight · 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 (parents, Celestine, we, other girls), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 Cardiff	case
2	Cardiff	Cardiff	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 says	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Celestine	punct
4	Celestine	Celestine	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 says	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Celestine	punct
6	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	7 parents	nmod:poss
7	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lawyers	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 lawyers	cop
9	both	both	ADV	_	10 lawyers	advmod
10	lawyers	lawyer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 Celestine	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Celestine	punct
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 sleepover	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 sleepover	det
15	sleepover	sleepover	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tired	punct
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	23 tired	punct
18	Statistically	statistically	ADV	_	23 tired	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Statistically	punct
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 tired	nsubj
21	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 tired	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 tired	cop
23	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 says	ccomp
24	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tired	obl:unmarked
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct
26	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct
27	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 girls	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 girls	amod
29	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 want	nsubj
30	just	just	ADV	_	31 want	advmod
31	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 says	parataxis
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 fight	det
33	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fight	compound
34	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 want	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: changed voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	lawyers's parents	lawyers			both property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	Celestine		Cardiff		at a sleepover	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in cardiff=Manner
3	is in a quote	future	we			tomorrow	statistically, tired property	tree rules
4	want	present	the other girls	a pillow fight				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fight=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:499-the-only-child-all-the-attention-and-wanting-a-sibling.lesson:21.

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): R8-pos-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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