Living in a children's home, sentence 33
«Then we keep looking till we find the right one, and you get to meet them first.» Maddox gets a letter: «Formal notice: placement review hearing.
Who acts: we, you, Maddox · What happens: keep, look, find, get, meet · To what, where: right one, visits, letter
This is a sentence of the lesson «Living in a children's home» 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 (we, you, Maddox), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 keep | advmod |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 keep | nsubj |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 keep | xcomp |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 8 find | mark |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 find | nsubj |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 looking | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 one | det |
| 10 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 one | amod |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 find | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 get | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 get | cc |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 get | nsubj |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 keep | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 meet | mark |
| 17 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 get | xcomp |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 meet | obj |
| 19 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 meet | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 get | punct |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| 22 | Maddox | Maddox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 gets | nsubj |
| 23 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 get | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 letter | det |
| 25 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gets | obj |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 notice | punct |
| 27 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 29 notice | punct |
| 28 | Formal | formal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 notice | amod |
| 29 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 letter | appos |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 hearing | punct |
| 31 | placement | placement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 review | compound |
| 32 | review | review | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 hearing | compound |
| 33 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 notice | appos |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep in a quote | present | we | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look in a quote | gerund | we not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | find in a quote | present | we | the right one | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | ||||
| 4 | get in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | meet in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | visits = visit | first property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | |||
| 6 | get | present | Maddox | a letter | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer letter=Stimulus |
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:520-living-in-a-childrens-home.lesson:33.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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