The only child: all the attention and wanting a sibling, sentence 39
Only children may get more presents but have no brother or sister to share the day with; inviting cousins or friends helps.
Who acts: children, inviting · What happens: get, have, share, invite, help · To what, where: more presents, brother, cousins
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 (children, inviting), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 children | advmod |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 get | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 presents | amod |
| 6 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 get | obj |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 have | cc |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | conj |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 brother | det |
| 10 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 sister | cc |
| 12 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brother | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 share | mark |
| 14 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sister | acl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 day | det |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 share | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 share | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 helps | punct |
| 19 | inviting | invite | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 helps | csubj |
| 20 | cousins | cousin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 inviting | obj |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 friends | cc |
| 22 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 cousins | conj |
| 23 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | may | children | more presents | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer present=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | present | children not said here | no brother or sister | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient | ||||
| 3 | share | to-infinitive | children not said here | day | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | invite | gerund | cousins or friends | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cousin=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | help | present | inviting | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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:39.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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