The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs, sentence 32
Telling a parent calmly, «Sometimes I feel you like him more», is a good way to bring it up; most parents want to know.
Who acts: I, parent, most parents · What happens: tell, feel, like, be, bring up, want · To what, where: parent, favourite, good way · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, parent, most parents), 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 | Telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 way | advcl |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 parent | det |
| 3 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Telling | iobj |
| 4 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 1 Telling | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Telling | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 feel | punct |
| 7 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 feel | advmod |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 feel | nsubj |
| 9 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Telling | parataxis |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 like | nsubj |
| 11 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 feel | ccomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 like | obj |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 like | advmod |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 feel | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Telling | punct |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 way | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 way | det |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 way | amod |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 bring | mark |
| 21 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 way | acl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bring | obj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 bring | compound:prt |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 want | punct |
| 25 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 parents | amod |
| 26 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 want | nsubj |
| 27 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 way | parataxis |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 know | mark |
| 29 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 want | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 way | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=suggest
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | a parent | calmly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | feel in a quote | present | I | sometimes property | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | like in a quote | present | a parent = parent | favourite | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | a good way | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | bring up | to-infinitive | parent | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 6 | want | present | most parents | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | most parents not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:32.
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. 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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