The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs, sentence 19
Hand-me-downs are clothes passed down from an older child.
Who acts: Hand downs · What happens: be, pass down · To what, where: clothes
This is a sentence of the lesson «The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs» 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 (Hand downs), 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 | Hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 downs | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 me | punct |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Hand | conj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 me | punct |
| 5 | downs | down | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 clothes | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 clothes | cop |
| 7 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | root | root |
| 8 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 clothes | acl |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 passed | compound:prt |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 child | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 child | det |
| 12 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 child | amod |
| 13 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 passed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 clothes | 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 | is a | present | Hand downs | clothes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pass down | participle | clothes not said here | from a older child | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from child=Initial_Location |
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:509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs.lesson:19.
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): 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.
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