The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs, sentence 31
Children often feel a parent has a favourite; sometimes it is real, sometimes different ages simply get different things.
Who acts: Children, parent, different ages · What happens: feel, have, be, get · To what, where: favourite, different things
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 (Children, parent, different ages), 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 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 feel | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 feel | advmod |
| 3 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 parent | det |
| 5 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 feel | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 favourite | det |
| 8 | favourite | favourite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 real | punct |
| 10 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 real | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 real | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 real | cop |
| 13 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 feel | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 get | punct |
| 15 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 get | advmod |
| 16 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ages | amod |
| 17 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 get | nsubj |
| 18 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 19 get | advmod |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 real | parataxis |
| 20 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 things | amod |
| 21 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 get | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | Children | often property | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | a parent | a favourite | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favourite=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | parent | real, sometimes property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get | present | different ages | different things | simply, sometimes property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
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:31.
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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