Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met, sentence 18
Ayo, 10, from London, visits Lagos once and can't believe how many people know his name: «You're Mama Bisi's grandson!» Visiting your grandparents' country can make you feel part of something big.
Who acts: Ayo, many people, You, Visiting · What happens: visit, not believe, know, be, make, feel · To what, where: Lagos, name, grandson, country, you, part · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met» 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 (Ayo, many people, You, Visiting), 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 | Ayo | Ayo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 visits | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 10 | punct |
| 3 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Ayo | list |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 London | punct |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 London | case |
| 6 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ayo | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ayo | punct |
| 8 | visits | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Lagos | Lagos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 visits | obj |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 visits | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 believe | cc |
| 12 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 believe | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 believe | advmod |
| 14 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 visits | conj |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 many | advmod |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 people | amod |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 know | nsubj |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 believe | ccomp |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 name | nmod:poss |
| 20 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 know | obj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 grandson | punct |
| 22 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 28 grandson | punct |
| 23 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 grandson | nsubj |
| 24 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 grandson | cop |
| 25 | Mama | Mama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 grandson | nmod:poss |
| 26 | Bisi | Bisi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Mama | flat |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 Bisi | case |
| 28 | grandson | grandson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 visits | parataxis |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 grandson | punct |
| 30 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 28 grandson | punct |
| 31 | Visiting | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 make | csubj |
| 32 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 grandparents | nmod:poss |
| 33 | grandparents | grandparent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 country | nmod:poss |
| 34 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 33 grandparents | case |
| 35 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Visiting | obj |
| 36 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 make | aux |
| 37 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 visits | parataxis |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 make | obj |
| 39 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 make | xcomp |
| 40 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 feel | obj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 something | case |
| 42 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 40 part | nmod |
| 43 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 something | amod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 visits | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | present | Ayo from London | Lagos | once property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not believe | can | Ayo from London not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | know | present | many people | Ayo's name | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | You | Mama's grandson | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | visit | gerund | your grandparents's country | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Co-Agent | |||||
| 6 | make | can | Visiting | you | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | feel | infinitive | you not said here | part of something | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | ||||
| 8 | name | Ayo | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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:513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met.lesson:18.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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