Divorce and two homes, sentence 33

A kind lady from the court comes to ask what he thinks: children are listened to, but they don't have to choose; the grown-ups decide.

Who acts: kind lady, Craig, children, grown ups · What happens: come, ask, think, listen, not have, choose · To what, where: children

This is a sentence of the lesson «Divorce and two homes» 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 (kind lady, Craig, children, grown ups), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lady	det
2	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lady	amod
3	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 comes	nsubj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 court	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 court	det
6	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lady	nmod
7	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 ask	mark
9	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 comes	advcl
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 ask	obj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thinks	nsubj
12	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 what	acl:relcl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 listened	punct
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 listened	nsubj:pass
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 listened	aux:pass
16	listened	listen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 comes	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	16 listened	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 have	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 have	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 have	nsubj
21	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 have	aux
22	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 have	advmod
23	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 listened	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 choose	mark
25	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 have	xcomp
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 decide	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ups	det
28	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 ups	amod
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 grown	punct
30	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 decide	nsubj
31	decide	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 comes	parataxis
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 comes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come	present	a kind lady from the court		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	a kind lady from the court not said here		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient
3	think speech: other	present	Craig		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	listen	present · passive		children	tree rules
5	not have	present · do-support	children = child		tree rules
6	choose	to-infinitive	children = child not said here		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	grow	participle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	decide	present	the grown ups		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:516-divorce-and-two-homes.lesson:33.

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): R5-strong ×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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