Dementia and the first death in the family, sentence 38

Care homes can feel strange to children; short visits with a drawing or a song are fine.

Who acts: Care homes, short visits · What happens: feel, be

This is a sentence of the lesson «Dementia and the first death in the family» 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 (Care homes, short visits), 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	Care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 homes	compound
2	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feel	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	aux
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feel	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 children	case
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 strange	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 fine	punct
9	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 visits	amod
10	visits	visit	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fine	nsubj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 drawing	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 drawing	det
13	drawing	drawing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 visits	nmod
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 song	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 song	det
16	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drawing	conj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 fine	cop
18	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feel	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 feel	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	feel	can	Care homes					strange property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	present	short visits with a drawing or a song					fine property	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:514-dementia-and-the-first-death-in-the-family.lesson:38.

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. 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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