Adoption, sentence 20
Most families now tell children early, so it's never a shock.
Who acts: Most families, family · What happens: tell, not be · To what, where: children, shock · 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 (Most families, family), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 families | amod |
| 2 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | _ | 4 tell | advmod |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tell | obj |
| 6 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 tell | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shock | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 shock | advmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 shock | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 shock | cop |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 shock | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 shock | det |
| 13 | shock | shock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | 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 | tell speech: assert | present | Most families | children | now | early property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient | ||
| 2 | not is a | present | family | a shock | tree rules |
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:20.
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.
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