A new baby, sentence 34
The baby grabs her finger and won't let go, and Kalani melts.
Who acts: baby, Kalani · What happens: grab, not let, go, melt · To what, where: finger
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, Kalani), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 baby | det |
| 2 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grabs | nsubj |
| 3 | grabs | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 let | nsubj |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 finger | nmod:poss |
| 5 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grabs | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 let | cc |
| 7 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 let | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 let | advmod |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 melts | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 melts | cc |
| 13 | Kalani | Kalani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 melts | nsubj |
| 14 | melts | melt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 let | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grabs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grab | present | the baby | baby's finger | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not let | future | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | melt | present | Kalani | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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: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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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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