Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains, sentence 32

Some families have rows that last years; children are usually not told the details, and fixing them is not a child's job.

Who acts: families, rows, fixing · What happens: have, last, not tell, fix, not be · To what, where: rows, children, details, job · 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 (families, rows, fixing), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 families	det
2	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 last	nsubj
6	last	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rows	acl:relcl
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 last	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 told	nsubj:pass
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 told	aux:pass
11	usually	usually	ADV	_	13 told	advmod
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 told	advmod
13	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 have	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 details	det
15	details	detail	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 told	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 job	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 job	cc
18	fixing	fix	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 job	csubj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 fixing	obj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 job	cop
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 job	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 child	det
23	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 job	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 child	case
25	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	some families	rows			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent row=Patient
2	last	present	rows		year		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
3	not tell speech: assert	present · passive		children		usually property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient detail=Topic
4	fix	gerund		details = detail			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	not is a	present	fixing	a child's job			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:511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains.lesson:32.

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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