Twins and big families, sentence 37
Twins compare themselves a lot, so one twin's win can feel like the other's loss.
Who acts: Twins, win, one twin · What happens: compare, feel, win · To what, where: Twins
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 (Twins, win, one twin), 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 | 2 compare | nsubj |
| 2 | compare | compare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 compare | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lot | det |
| 5 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 compare | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 feel | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 feel | advmod |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 twin | nummod |
| 9 | twin | twin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 win | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 twin | case |
| 11 | win | win | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 feel | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 feel | aux |
| 13 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 compare | conj |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 loss | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 other | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 loss | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 other | case |
| 18 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 feel | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 compare | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | present | Twins | Twins = twin | a lot obl:unmarked | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | |||
| 2 | feel | can | one twin's win | like the other's loss | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like loss=Theme | ||||
| 3 | win | one twin | nom win «event intransitive»: 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:503-twins-and-big-families.lesson:37.
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, 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.
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