The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs, sentence 30

A «black sheep» is the family member who doesn't fit the family's idea of itself; being different is not being wrong.

Who acts: black sheep, family member · What happens: be, not fit, not be · To what, where: family member, idea

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 (black sheep, family member), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sheep	det
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 sheep	punct
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sheep	amod
4	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 member	nsubj
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 sheep	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 member	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 member	det
8	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 member	compound
9	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 fit	nsubj
11	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fit	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 fit	advmod
13	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 member	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 family	det
15	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 idea	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 family	case
17	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fit	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 itself	case
19	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 idea	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 wrong	punct
21	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 different	cop
22	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 wrong	csubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 wrong	cop
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 wrong	advmod
25	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 wrong	cop
26	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 member	parataxis
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 member	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a black sheep	the family member		tree rules
2	not fit	present · do-support	the family member	the family's idea of sheep		vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient
3	is	gerund			different property	tree rules
4	not is	present			wrong 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:509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs.lesson:30.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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