Adoption, sentence 10
Mila gets a letter from her birth mum once a year, passed on through the adoption agency; this is called letterbox contact.
Who acts: Mila · What happens: get, pass on, call · To what, where: letter, adoption agency, this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Adoption» 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 (Mila), 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 | Mila | Mila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gets | nsubj |
| 2 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 letter | det |
| 4 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gets | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 mum | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mum | nmod:poss |
| 7 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mum | compound |
| 8 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 letter | nmod |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 gets | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 year | det |
| 11 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 once | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 passed | punct |
| 13 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 gets | advcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 passed | compound:prt |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 agency | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 agency | det |
| 17 | adoption | adoption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 agency | compound |
| 18 | agency | agency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 passed | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 contact | punct |
| 20 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 called | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 called | aux:pass |
| 22 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 gets | parataxis |
| 23 | letterbox | letterbox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 contact | compound |
| 24 | contact | contact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 called | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Mila | a letter | from Mila's birth mum; once property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent letter=Theme from mum=Source | |||
| 2 | pass on | participle | Mila not said here | the adoption agency | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | call | present · passive | this | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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:522-adoption.lesson:10.
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 ×2. 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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