Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met, sentence 27
Language gaps with grandparents are common; trying matters more than getting it right.
Who acts: Language gaps · What happens: be, try, matter, get · To what, where: mistake
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 (Language gaps), 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 | Language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gaps | compound |
| 2 | gaps | gap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 common | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 grandparents | case |
| 4 | grandparents | grandparent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gaps | nmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 common | cop |
| 6 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 common | punct |
| 8 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 matters | nsubj |
| 9 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 common | parataxis |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 matters | advmod |
| 11 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 getting | mark |
| 12 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 matters | advcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 getting | obj |
| 14 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 getting | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 common | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Language gaps with grandparents | common property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | try | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | matter | present | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | get | gerund | mistake | right property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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:27.
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): R7-rel-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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