The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs, sentence 28
That often passes; meanwhile Becca can give her space and find her own friends.
Who acts: That, Becca · What happens: pass, give, find · To what, where: space, sister, own friends
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 (That, Becca), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 passes | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 passes | advmod |
| 3 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 passes | punct |
| 5 | meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 8 give | advmod |
| 6 | Becca | Becca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 give | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | aux |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 passes | parataxis |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 give | iobj |
| 10 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 find | cc |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 give | conj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 friends | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 friends | amod |
| 15 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 find | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | present | That | often property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | can | Becca | space | sister | meanwhile property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient space=Theme | ||
| 3 | find | infinitive | Becca not said here | Becca's own friends | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Topic |
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:28.
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): no change. 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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