The only child: all the attention and wanting a sibling, sentence 38
Parents' time is shared between their children, so an only child often gets more of it.
Who acts: only child · What happens: share, get · To what, where: time, more
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 (only 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 | Parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 time | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 1 Parents | case |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shared | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 shared | aux:pass |
| 5 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 8 children | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 children | nmod:poss |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shared | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gets | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 gets | advmod |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 child | det |
| 12 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 child | amod |
| 13 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gets | nsubj |
| 14 | often | often | ADV | _ | 15 gets | advmod |
| 15 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 shared | conj |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 gets | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 more | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shared | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | present · passive | Parents's time | between parents's children | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | present | a only child | more of fault | often property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus |
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:38.
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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