Living in a children's home, sentence 41
If something is taken or someone is unkind, children should tell the staff, who are there to help.
Who acts: someone, children, staff · What happens: take, be, tell, help · To what, where: something, staff · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (someone, children, staff), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 taken | mark |
| 2 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 taken | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux:pass |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 tell | advcl |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 unkind | cc |
| 6 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 unkind | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 unkind | cop |
| 8 | unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 taken | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
| 10 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 tell | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 tell | aux |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 staff | det |
| 14 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tell | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 there | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 there | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 there | cop |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 staff | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 help | mark |
| 20 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 there | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | something | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | someone | unkind property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | should | children | the staff | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent staff=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the staff | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | help | to-infinitive | the staff not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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:41.
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): no change. 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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