The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs, sentence 38
Hard times, like a parent being ill, can bring siblings closer.
Who acts: parent, Hard times · What happens: be, bring · To what, where: siblings
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 (parent, Hard times), 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 | Hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 times | amod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ill | punct |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 parent | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 parent | det |
| 6 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ill | nsubj |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 ill | cop |
| 8 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 times | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 times | punct |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 bring | aux |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | siblings | sibling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bring | obj |
| 13 | closer | close | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 bring | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | a parent | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | can | Hard times | siblings | close property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sibling=Theme |
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:38.
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): R7-rel-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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