A sibling with a disability or illness, a sibling who left home, sentence 29
People who stare at a disabled child usually just don't understand; a short calm answer is enough.
Who acts: People, short calm answer · What happens: stare, not understand, be
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 (People, short calm answer), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 understand | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 stare | nsubj |
| 3 | stare | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 People | acl:relcl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 child | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 child | det |
| 6 | disabled | disabled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 child | amod |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stare | obl |
| 8 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 12 understand | advmod |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 understand | advmod |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 understand | aux |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 understand | advmod |
| 12 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 enough | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 answer | det |
| 15 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 answer | amod |
| 16 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 answer | amod |
| 17 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 enough | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 enough | cop |
| 19 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 understand | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 understand | 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 | stare | present | People | at a disabled child | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at child=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not understand | present · do-support | People | usually property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is | present | a short calm answer | enough property | tree rules |
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:29.
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): 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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