Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison, sentence 2
They FaceTime on Sundays when the signal works, Dad's face freezing mid-laugh.
Who acts: parents, signal, face · What happens: facetime, work, freeze · To what, where: face
This is a sentence of the lesson «Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison» 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 (parents, signal, face), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 FaceTime | nsubj |
| 2 | FaceTime | facetime | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 Sundays | case |
| 4 | Sundays | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 FaceTime | obl |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 works | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 signal | det |
| 7 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 works | nsubj |
| 8 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 FaceTime | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 face | punct |
| 10 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 face | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Dad | case |
| 12 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 works | obl |
| 13 | freezing | freeze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 face | acl |
| 14 | mid-laugh | mid-laugh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 freezing | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 FaceTime | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | facetime | present | parents = parent | sunday | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | work | present | the signal | Dad's face | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | freeze | gerund | Dad's face not said here | mid-laugh property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison.lesson:2.
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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
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