When a parent has died, sentence 25

You're allowed to say, «Thanks, can we talk about something else?» Tiana tries to be extra good so Mum won't be sadder: tidy room, no fuss, all smiles.

Who acts: You, we, Tiana, Mum · What happens: allow, say, talk, try, be, not be · To what, where: You · 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 (You, we, Tiana, 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 allowed	aux:pass
3	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 say	mark
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 allowed	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Thanks	punct
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 Thanks	punct
8	Thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 talk	punct
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 talk	aux
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 talk	nsubj
12	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	ccomp
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 something	case
14	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 talk	obl
15	else	else	ADV	_	14 something	advmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 talk	punct
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 tries	punct
18	Tiana	Tiana	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 tries	nsubj
19	tries	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 allowed	parataxis
20	to	to	PART	_	23 good	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 good	cop
22	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 good	amod
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Thanks	xcomp
24	so	so	SCONJ	_	29 sadder	mark
25	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sadder	nsubj
26	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 sadder	aux
27	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 sadder	advmod
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 sadder	cop
29	sadder	sad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 tries	advcl
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 room	punct
31	tidy	tidy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 room	amod
32	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Thanks	parataxis
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 fuss	punct
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 fuss	det
35	fuss	fuss	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 room	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 smiles	punct
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 smiles	det
38	smiles	smile	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 room	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 allowed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	allow	present · passive		You		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	say speech: ask not said to happen	to-infinitive	You not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	talk in a quote	can	we		about something	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about something=Topic
4	try	present	Tiana			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	to-infinitive	You not said here		good property	tree rules
6	not is	future	Mum		sad 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:518-when-a-parent-has-died.lesson:25.

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, R8-pos-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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