Adoption, sentence 42
Adopted children are often curious about their birth family, and that is normal.
Who acts: Adopted children, that · What happens: adopt, be
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 (Adopted children, that), 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 | Adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 children | amod |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 curious | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 curious | cop |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 curious | advmod |
| 5 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 family | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 family | nmod:poss |
| 8 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 family | compound |
| 9 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 curious | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 normal | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 normal | cc |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 normal | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 normal | cop |
| 14 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 curious | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 curious | 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 | adopt | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | Adopted children | about parents's birth family; curious, often property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | that | normal 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:42.
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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