Manners and kindness, sentence 23

When grown-ups say someone is on their own again, it usually means their partner has left or they have split up; the kind thing is to be friendly and not gossip.

Who acts: grown ups, someone, it, partner, ups, kind thing · What happens: say, be, mean, leave, split up · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (grown ups, someone, it, partner), 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	_	5 say	mark
2	grown	grown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ups	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 ups	punct
4	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 means	advcl
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 own	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 own	cop
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 own	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 own	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 say	ccomp
11	again	again	ADV	_	10 own	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 means	nsubj
14	usually	usually	ADV	_	15 means	advmod
15	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 partner	nmod:poss
17	partner	partner	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 left	nsubj
18	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 left	aux
19	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 means	ccomp
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 split	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 split	nsubj
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 split	aux
23	split	split	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 left	conj
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 split	compound:prt
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 means	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 thing	det
27	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 thing	amod
28	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 friendly	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 friendly	cop
30	to	to	PART	_	32 friendly	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 friendly	cop
32	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 means	parataxis
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 gossip	cc
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 gossip	advmod
35	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 friendly	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	grown ups			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	someone	again	own property	tree rules
3	mean	present	it		usually property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	leave	present · perfect	ups's partner			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	split up	present · perfect	ups = up			vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	the kind thing		friendly 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:23.

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): no change. 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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