The only child: all the attention and wanting a sibling, sentence 42
A parent on their own may lean on an only child for company, but a child needs friends of his own age.
Who acts: parent, child · What happens: lean, need · To what, where: friends
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 (parent, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 parent | det |
| 2 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lean | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 own | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 own | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 parent | nmod |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 lean | aux |
| 7 | lean | lean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 child | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 child | det |
| 10 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 child | amod |
| 11 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lean | obl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 company | case |
| 13 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lean | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 needs | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 needs | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 child | det |
| 17 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 needs | nsubj |
| 18 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lean | conj |
| 19 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 needs | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 age | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 age | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 age | amod |
| 23 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 friends | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lean | 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 | lean | may | a parent on parents's own | on a only child; for company | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on child=Location | ||||
| 2 | need | present | a child | friends of child's own age | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot friend=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:42.
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): R5-strong ×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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