The only child: all the attention and wanting a sibling, sentence 37
Some parents wanted more children and it didn't happen; that is private, often sad, and never the child's fault.
Who acts: parents, it, that, child · What happens: want, not happen, be, fault · To what, where: more children
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, it, that, child), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 parents | det |
| 2 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 3 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 children | amod |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wanted | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 happen | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 happen | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 happen | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 happen | advmod |
| 10 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wanted | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 private | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 private | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 private | cop |
| 14 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wanted | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sad | punct |
| 16 | often | often | ADV | _ | 17 sad | advmod |
| 17 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 private | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fault | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fault | cc |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 fault | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 child | det |
| 22 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fault | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 child | case |
| 24 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 private | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | some parents | more children | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot child=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not happen | past · do-support | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | that | private property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | that not said here | often property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | fault | the child | nom fault «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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: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): no change. 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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