Adoption, sentence 41

Many families tell children they are adopted from very early on, so it is never a shock; finding out late can be very hard.

Who acts: Many families, child, finding · What happens: tell, adopt, not be, find out, be · To what, where: children, parents, 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 (Many families, child, finding), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 families	amod
2	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tell	nsubj
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tell	iobj
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 adopted	nsubj:pass
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 adopted	aux:pass
7	adopted	adopt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tell	ccomp
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 on	case
9	very	very	ADV	_	11 on	advmod
10	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 on	advmod
11	on	on	ADV	_	7 adopted	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shock	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	18 shock	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 shock	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 shock	cop
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 shock	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 shock	det
18	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	parataxis
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 finding	punct
20	finding	find	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 hard	csubj
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 finding	compound:prt
22	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 finding	advmod
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 hard	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 hard	cop
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 hard	advmod
26	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tell	parataxis
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Many families		children		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic
2	adopt	present · passive		parents = parent			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	not is a	present	child	a shock			tree rules
4	find out	gerund				late property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
5	is	can	finding			hard property	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: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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