The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad, sentence 33
Old sayings like «children should be seen and not heard» come from older times; you can respect them and smile at them.
Who acts: Old sayings, you · What happens: see, not hear, come, respect, smile · To what, where: sayings · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Old sayings, 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sayings | amod |
| 2 | sayings | saying | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 come | nsubj |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 children | case |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 like | punct |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sayings | nmod |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 seen | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 seen | aux:pass |
| 8 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 come | parataxis |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 heard | cc |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 heard | advmod |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 seen | conj |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 seen | punct |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 times | case |
| 15 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 times | amod |
| 16 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 come | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 respect | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 respect | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 respect | aux |
| 20 | respect | respect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 come | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 respect | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 smile | cc |
| 23 | smile | smile | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 respect | conj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 smile | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=suggest
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | should · passive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» | ||||||
| 2 | not hear in a quote | participle | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | come | present | Old sayings like children | time | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | respect | can | you | sayings = saying | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | smile | infinitive | you not said here | at sayings = saying | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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:33.
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): R6-punct-agree ×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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