The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad, sentence 29
Many grandparents spoil their grandchildren because they have more time and fewer rules than busy parents.
Who acts: Many grandparents, grandparents · What happens: spoil, have · To what, where: grandchildren
This is a sentence of the lesson «The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad» 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 (Many grandparents, grandparents), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 grandparents | amod |
| 2 | grandparents | grandparent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spoil | nsubj |
| 3 | spoil | spoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 grandchildren | nmod:poss |
| 5 | grandchildren | grandchild | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spoil | obj |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 have | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoil | advcl |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rules | cc |
| 12 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 rules | amod |
| 13 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 time | conj |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 parents | case |
| 15 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 parents | amod |
| 16 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 time | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoil | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spoil | present | Many grandparents | grandparents's grandchildren | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | grandparents = grandparent | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:512-the-granny-who-spoils-you-and-the-strict-grandad.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): 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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