Adoption, sentence 43
Letterbox contact means letters between an adopted child's family and the birth family, passed on through an agency.
Who acts: Letterbox contact · What happens: mean, adopt, pass on · To what, where: letters, agency
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 (Letterbox contact), 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 | Letterbox | letterbox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 contact | compound |
| 2 | contact | contact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 means | obj |
| 5 | between | between | ADP | _ | 10 family | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 child | det |
| 7 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 child | amod |
| 8 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 family | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 child | case |
| 10 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 letters | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 family | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 family | det |
| 13 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 family | compound |
| 14 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 family | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 passed | punct |
| 16 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 letters | acl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 passed | compound:prt |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 agency | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 agency | det |
| 20 | agency | agency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 passed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | 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 | mean | present | Letterbox contact | letters | between a adopted child's family and the birth family | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Topic | |||
| 2 | adopt | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | pass on | participle | letters not said here | a agency | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: 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:522-adoption.lesson:43.
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 ×1, 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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