The only child: all the attention and wanting a sibling, sentence 9
In Leicester, Teodor, whose parents came from Romania, asks for a baby brother for Christmas.
Who acts: parents, Teodor · What happens: come, ask · To what, where: Romania, Leicester
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, Teodor), 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 Leicester | case |
| 2 | Leicester | Leicester | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 asks | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 asks | punct |
| 4 | Teodor | Teodor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 asks | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 asks | punct |
| 6 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 7 parents | nmod:poss |
| 7 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Teodor | acl:relcl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 Romania | case |
| 10 | Romania | Romania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 asks | punct |
| 12 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 brother | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 brother | det |
| 15 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brother | compound |
| 16 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asks | obl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 Christmas | case |
| 18 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 asks | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | parents | Romania | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from romania=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | Teodor | Leicester | for a baby brother; for Christmas | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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:9.
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, 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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