Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met, sentence 9
In Auckland, Koa's grandad in Samoa sends voice messages in Samoan; Koa understands half, and his mum translates the rest.
Who acts: grandad, Koa, mum · What happens: send, understand, translate · To what, where: voice messages, Auckland, half, rest
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 (grandad, Koa, mum), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Auckland | case |
| 2 | Auckland | Auckland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sends | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 grandad | punct |
| 4 | Koa | Koa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 grandad | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Koa | case |
| 6 | grandad | grandad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sends | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Samoa | case |
| 8 | Samoa | Samoa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 grandad | nmod |
| 9 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 messages | compound |
| 11 | messages | message | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sends | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Samoan | case |
| 13 | Samoan | Samoan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sends | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 understands | punct |
| 15 | Koa | Koa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 understands | nsubj |
| 16 | understands | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sends | conj |
| 17 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 16 understands | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 translates | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 translates | cc |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mum | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 translates | nsubj |
| 22 | translates | translate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sends | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 rest | det |
| 24 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 translates | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sends | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present | Koa's grandad in Samoa | voice messages | Auckland | in Samoan | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme in auckland=Destination | ||
| 2 | understand | present | Koa | half | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer half=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | translate | present | Koa's mum | the rest | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=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:9.
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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