A sibling with a disability or illness, a sibling who left home, sentence 11
In Seattle a boy uses the r-word, a cruel old word for people with learning disabilities, about Eli's sister Romilly, who has Down syndrome (something you are born with that makes learning slower).
Who acts: boy, Romilly · What happens: use, have, bear, make · To what, where: r word, Seattle, Down syndrome, you, learning
This is a sentence of the lesson «A sibling with a disability or illness, a sibling who left home» 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 (boy, Romilly), 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 | _ | 2 Seattle | case |
| 2 | Seattle | Seattle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 uses | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 uses | nsubj |
| 5 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 word | det |
| 7 | r | r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 word | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 r | punct |
| 9 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 uses | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 word | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 word | det |
| 12 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 word | amod |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 word | amod |
| 14 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 word | appos |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 people | case |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 word | nmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 disabilities | case |
| 18 | learning | learning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 disabilities | compound |
| 19 | disabilities | disability | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 people | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Romilly | punct |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 25 Romilly | case |
| 22 | Eli | Eli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 sister | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 Eli | case |
| 24 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Romilly | nmod:desc |
| 25 | Romilly | Romilly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 uses | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 has | punct |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 has | nsubj |
| 28 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 Romilly | acl:relcl |
| 29 | Down | Down | PROPN | _ | 30 syndrome | compound |
| 30 | syndrome | syndrome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 has | obj |
| 31 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 something | punct |
| 32 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 30 syndrome | appos |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 born | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 born | aux:pass |
| 35 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 something | acl:relcl |
| 36 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 38 makes | mark |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 makes | nsubj |
| 38 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 something | acl:relcl |
| 39 | learning | learning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 makes | obj |
| 40 | slower | slow | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 38 makes | xcomp |
| 41 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 something | punct |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 uses | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | a boy | the r word | Seattle | about Romilly Eli's sister | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | ||
| 2 | have | present | Romilly Eli's sister | Down syndrome | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent syndrome=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bear | present · passive | you | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | make | present | learning | slow property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset learning=Product |
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:506-a-sibling-with-a-disability-or-illness-or-who-left-home.lesson:11.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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