Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met, sentence 25
Calls from grandchildren mean a lot to grandparents far away.
Who acts: Calls · What happens: mean · To what, where: lot
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 (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 | Calls | call | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 mean | nsubj |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 grandchildren | case |
| 3 | grandchildren | grandchild | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Calls | nmod |
| 4 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lot | det |
| 6 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mean | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 grandparents | case |
| 8 | grandparents | grandparent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 mean | obl |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 away | advmod |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 grandparents | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Calls from grandchildren | a lot | to grandparents | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot lot=Theme to grandparent=Attribute |
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.
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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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