The only child: all the attention and wanting a sibling, sentence 4
In Birmingham, Nadia's parents check her homework every night and argue about whether her handwriting is neat enough.
Who acts: parents, handwriting, Nadia · What happens: check, argue, be, handwrite · To what, where: homework, Birmingham
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, handwriting, Nadia), 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 Birmingham | case |
| 2 | Birmingham | Birmingham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 check | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Birmingham | punct |
| 4 | Nadia | Nadia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 parents | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Nadia | case |
| 6 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 check | nsubj |
| 7 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 homework | nmod:poss |
| 9 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 check | obj |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 night | det |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 check | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 argue | cc |
| 13 | argue | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 check | conj |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 argue | obl |
| 15 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 19 neat | mark |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 handwriting | nmod:poss |
| 17 | handwriting | handwriting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 neat | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 neat | cop |
| 19 | neat | neat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 argue | advcl |
| 20 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 19 neat | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 check | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | present | Nadia's parents | Nadia's homework | Birmingham | night | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Theme | ||
| 2 | argue speech: disagree | present | Nadia's parents not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | Nadia's handwriting | enough, neat property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | handwrite | Nadia | nom handwriting «communication 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:4.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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