Half- and step-siblings, sentence 38
Step-siblings start as strangers forced together; it takes time, and a shared interest helps.
Who acts: Step siblings, it, shared interest · What happens: start, force, take, share, help · To what, where: strangers
This is a sentence of the lesson «Half- and step-siblings» 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 (Step siblings, it, shared interest), 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 | Step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 siblings | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Step | punct |
| 3 | siblings | sibling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 start | nsubj |
| 4 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 strangers | case |
| 6 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 start | obl |
| 7 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 strangers | acl |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 forced | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 takes | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 takes | nsubj |
| 11 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 start | parataxis |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 takes | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 helps | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 helps | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 interest | det |
| 16 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 interest | amod |
| 17 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 helps | nsubj |
| 18 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 start | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 start | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | Step siblings | as strangers | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | force | participle | strangers not said here | together property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | take | present | it | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | share | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | help | present | a shared interest | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:505-half-and-step-siblings.lesson:38.
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, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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