The parent who left, and a new partner, sentence 3
Mum doesn't pretend Dad is busy; she tells him the truth: «This is about your dad, not about you.
Who acts: Mum, Dad, This · What happens: not pretend, be, tell · To what, where: truth, Dad · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The parent who left, and a new partner» 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 (Mum, Dad, This), 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 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pretend | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pretend | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 pretend | advmod |
| 4 | pretend | pretend | VERB | _ | root | root |
| 5 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 busy | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 busy | cop |
| 7 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pretend | ccomp |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 tells | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 tells | nsubj |
| 10 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pretend | parataxis |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 tells | iobj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 truth | det |
| 13 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tells | obj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 dad | punct |
| 15 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 dad | punct |
| 16 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 dad | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 dad | cop |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 20 dad | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 dad | nmod:poss |
| 20 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 truth | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 you | punct |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 you | advmod |
| 23 | about | about | ADP | _ | 24 you | case |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 dad | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pretend | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not pretend | present · do-support | Mum | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Dad | busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | present | Mum | the truth | Dad | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient truth=Topic | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | This | about your dad; about Dad | 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:517-the-parent-who-left-and-a-new-partner.lesson:3.
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 ×2. 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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