Big brothers, sentence 40
Teenagers often go quiet for a while; it usually passes, but if a sibling seems really sad for a long time, tell a parent.
Who acts: Teenagers, space, sibling · What happens: go, pass, seem, tell · To what, where: parent · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Big brothers» 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 (Teenagers, space, sibling), 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 | Teenagers | teenager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 go | xcomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 while | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 while | det |
| 7 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 passes | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 passes | nsubj |
| 10 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 11 passes | advmod |
| 11 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 tell | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 tell | cc |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 seems | mark |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 sibling | det |
| 16 | sibling | sibling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seems | nsubj |
| 17 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 tell | advcl |
| 18 | really | really | ADV | _ | 19 sad | advmod |
| 19 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 seems | xcomp |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 time | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 time | det |
| 22 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 time | amod |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seems | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seems | punct |
| 25 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 passes | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 parent | det |
| 27 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tell | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Teenagers | while | often, quiet property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | pass | present | space | usually property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seem a condition, not said to happen | present | a sibling | time | sad property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | space not said here | a parent | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient |
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:501-big-brothers.lesson:40.
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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