Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met, sentence 5
And the calls matter hugely to Baba: seeing his face is the best part of her week.
Who acts: calls, seeing · What happens: matter, see, be · To what, where: Baba, face, best part
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, seeing), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 matter | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 calls | det |
| 3 | calls | call | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 matter | nsubj |
| 4 | matter | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | hugely | hugely | ADV | _ | 4 matter | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Baba | case |
| 7 | Baba | BAba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 matter | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 matter | punct |
| 9 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 part | csubj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 face | nmod:poss |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seeing | obj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 part | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 part | det |
| 14 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 part | amod |
| 15 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 matter | parataxis |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 week | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 week | nmod:poss |
| 18 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 part | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 matter | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=evaluate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | matter | present | the calls | Baba | hugely property | vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to baba=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | see | gerund | Taras's face | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | seeing | the best part | week | tree rules |
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:5.
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): R8-pos-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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