Manners and kindness, sentence 21

Families differ: some children have two mums or two dads, and that is normal.

Who acts: Families, children, that · What happens: differ, have, be · To what, where: two mums

This is a sentence of the lesson «Manners and kindness» 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 (Families, children, that), 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	Families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 differ	nsubj
2	differ	differ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 children	det
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 differ	parataxis
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 mums	nummod
8	mums	mum	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 dads	cc
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 dads	nummod
11	dads	dad	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 mums	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 normal	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 normal	cc
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 normal	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 normal	cop
16	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 differ	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 differ	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	differ	present	Families			vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	present	some children	two mums or two dads		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Patient
3	is	present	that		normal 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:051-manners-and-kindness.lesson:21.

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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