When a parent has died, sentence 20
When friends ask, «Do you miss her?», she says, «I don't know.
Who acts: friends, you, Mum · What happens: ask, miss, say, not know · To what, where: Mum · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «When a parent has died» 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 (friends, you, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 ask | mark |
| 2 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 says | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 miss | punct |
| 6 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 miss | aux |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 miss | nsubj |
| 8 | miss | miss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ask | parataxis |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 miss | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 says | nsubj |
| 14 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 know | punct |
| 16 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 know | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 know | nsubj |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 know | aux |
| 19 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 know | advmod |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 says | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | friends | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | miss in a quote | present · do-support | you | Mum | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | Mum | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | Mum | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:518-when-a-parent-has-died.lesson:20.
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): R6-punct-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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