A new baby, sentence 20
In New York, Ezra's baby brother has a heart problem and needs an operation; Ezra hears his parents crying.
Who acts: baby brother, Ezra, parents · What happens: have, need, hear, cry · To what, where: heart problem, New York, operation, parents
This is a sentence of the lesson «A new baby» 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 (baby brother, Ezra, parents), 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 | _ | 3 York | case |
| 2 | New | New | PROPN | _ | 3 York | flat |
| 3 | York | York | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 has | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 has | punct |
| 5 | Ezra | Ezra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 brother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Ezra | case |
| 7 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brother | compound |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 has | nsubj |
| 9 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 problem | det |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 problem | compound |
| 12 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 has | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 needs | cc |
| 14 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 has | conj |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 operation | det |
| 16 | operation | operation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 needs | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 hears | punct |
| 18 | Ezra | Ezra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 hears | nsubj |
| 19 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 has | parataxis |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 parents | nmod:poss |
| 21 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hears | obj |
| 22 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 hears | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Ezra's baby brother | a heart problem | New York | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Patient | |||
| 2 | need | present | Ezra's baby brother not said here | a operation | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot operation=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hear | present | Ezra | Ezra's parents | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | gerund | Ezra's parents not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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:504-a-new-baby.lesson:20.
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): 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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