Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met, sentence 28
Learning a few words of a grandparent's language makes them very happy.
Who acts: Learning · What happens: learn, make, word · To what, where: few words, grandparents, language
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 (Learning), 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 | Learning | learn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 makes | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 words | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 words | amod |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Learning | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 language | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 grandparent | det |
| 7 | grandparent | grandparent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 language | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 grandparent | case |
| 9 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 words | nmod |
| 10 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 makes | obj |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 happy | advmod |
| 13 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 makes | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | gerund | a few words of a grandparent's language | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make | present | Learning | grandparents = grandparent | happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | |||
| 3 | word | a grandparent's language | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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:28.
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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