Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away, sentence 7
Rich kids don't always understand, and Josiah can say calmly what his life is really like.
Who acts: Rich kids, Josiah · What happens: not understand, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away» 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 (Rich kids, Josiah), 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 | Rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 kids | amod |
| 2 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 understand | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 understand | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 understand | advmod |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | _ | 6 understand | advmod |
| 6 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 say | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 say | cc |
| 9 | Josiah | Josiah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 say | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 say | aux |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 understand | conj |
| 12 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 11 say | advmod |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 like | nsubj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 life | nmod:poss |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 like | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 like | cop |
| 17 | really | really | ADV | _ | 18 like | advmod |
| 18 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 say | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 understand | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not understand | present · do-support | Rich kids | always property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | can | Josiah | calmly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | like 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:510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away.lesson:7.
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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