The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs, sentence 39
When a sibling becomes a teenager they may want space for a while; it often passes.
Who acts: sibling, siblings, space · What happens: become, want, pass · To what, where: teenager, space
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 (sibling, siblings, space), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 becomes | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sibling | det |
| 3 | sibling | sibling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 becomes | nsubj |
| 4 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 want | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 teenager | det |
| 6 | teenager | teenager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 becomes | xcomp |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 want | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 want | aux |
| 9 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 want | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 while | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 while | det |
| 13 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 want | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 passes | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 passes | nsubj |
| 16 | often | often | ADV | _ | 17 passes | advmod |
| 17 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 want | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 want | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | present | a sibling | a teenager | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | want | may | siblings = sibling | space | while | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot space=Theme | |||
| 3 | pass | present | space | often property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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:39.
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): R5-strong ×1, 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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