Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met, sentence 32
Some children never meet their grandparents; photos and stories can still help them know them.
Who acts: children, photos, grandparents · What happens: not meet, help, know · To what, where: grandparents
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 (children, photos, grandparents), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 meet | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 meet | advmod |
| 4 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 grandparents | nmod:poss |
| 6 | grandparents | grandparent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 meet | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 help | punct |
| 8 | photos | photo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 help | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stories | cc |
| 10 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 photos | conj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 help | aux |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 help | advmod |
| 13 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 meet | parataxis |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 help | obj |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 help | xcomp |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 know | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 meet | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not meet | present | some children | children's grandparents | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandparent=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | help | can | photos and stories | grandparents = grandparent | still | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | |||
| 3 | know | infinitive | grandparents = grandparent not said here | grandparents = grandparent | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=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:32.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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