Twins and big families, sentence 34
Twins are often treated as one unit, but each twin is a separate person who needs to be seen.
Who acts: twin, separate person · What happens: treat, be, need, see · To what, where: Twins, separate person
This is a sentence of the lesson «Twins and big families» 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 (twin, separate person), 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 | Twins | twin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 treated | aux:pass |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 treated | advmod |
| 4 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 unit | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 unit | nummod |
| 7 | unit | unit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 treated | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 person | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 person | cc |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 twin | det |
| 11 | twin | twin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 person | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 person | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 person | det |
| 14 | separate | separate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 person | amod |
| 15 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 treated | conj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 needs | nsubj |
| 17 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 person | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 seen | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 seen | aux:pass |
| 20 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 needs | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 treated | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | treat | present · passive | Twins | as one unit; often property | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as unit=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | each twin | a separate person | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | need | present | a separate person | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | a separate person not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
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:503-twins-and-big-families.lesson:34.
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. 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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