Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains, sentence 29

Big family events can mean lots of hugs, cheek-pinching and attention; it is usually love, and you can still say politely if you don't like being touched.

Who acts: Big family events, attention, you · What happens: mean, be, say, not like, touch · To what, where: lots, love · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains» 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 (Big family events, attention, you), 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	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 events	amod
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 events	compound
3	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mean	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	aux
5	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mean	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 hugs	case
8	hugs	hug	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lots	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pinching	punct
10	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pinching	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 cheek	punct
12	pinching	pinching	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hugs	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 attention	cc
14	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pinching	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 love	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 love	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 love	cop
18	usually	usually	ADV	_	19 love	advmod
19	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mean	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 say	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 say	cc
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 say	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 say	aux
24	still	still	ADV	_	25 say	advmod
25	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 love	parataxis
26	politely	politely	ADV	_	25 say	advmod
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 like	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 like	nsubj
29	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 like	aux
30	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 like	advmod
31	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 say	advcl
32	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Ger	33 touched	aux:pass
33	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 like	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	mean	can	Big family events	lots of hugs and cheek pinching and attention			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic
2	is a	present	attention	love		usually property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	can	you		still	politely property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not like a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	touch not said to happen	gerund · passive	you not said here				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»

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:511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains.lesson:29.

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. 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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