When a parent has died, sentence 48
A short answer like «She died» is enough when someone asks; you don't owe more.
Who acts: answer, someone, you · What happens: die, be, not owe · To what, where: short answer, more · 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 (answer, someone, you), 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 answer | det |
| 2 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 answer | amod |
| 3 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 enough | nsubj:outer |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 died | mark |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 died | punct |
| 6 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 died | nsubj |
| 7 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 answer | acl:relcl |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 died | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 asks | cop |
| 10 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 asks | advmod |
| 12 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 asks | nsubj |
| 13 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 enough | advcl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 owe | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 owe | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 owe | aux |
| 17 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 owe | advmod |
| 18 | owe | owe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 asks | conj |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 owe | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 enough | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die in a quote | past | answer | a short answer not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be speech: ask | present | someone | ask property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not owe | present · do-support | you | more | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent more=Theme |
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:48.
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, 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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