Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met, sentence 23
Many children have grandparents in other countries, and video calls, messages and parcels keep them close.
Who acts: Many children, video calls · What happens: have, keep · To what, where: grandparents, other countries
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 (Many children, video calls), 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 children | amod |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | grandparents | grandparent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 countries | case |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 countries | amod |
| 7 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grandparents | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 keep | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 keep | cc |
| 10 | video | video | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 calls | compound |
| 11 | calls | call | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 keep | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 messages | punct |
| 13 | messages | message | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 calls | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 parcels | cc |
| 15 | parcels | parcel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 calls | conj |
| 16 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 keep | obj |
| 18 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 keep | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Many children | grandparents | other countries | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandparent=Patient | |||
| 2 | keep | present | video calls and messages and parcels | grandparents = grandparent | close property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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:23.
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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