Adoption, sentence 44
When adopted people grow up, they can usually find out more about their birth family.
Who acts: adopted people, people · What happens: adopt, grow up, find out · To what, where: more
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 people, people), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 grow | mark |
| 2 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grow | nsubj |
| 4 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 find | advcl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 grow | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 grow | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 find | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 find | aux |
| 9 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 10 find | advmod |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 find | compound:prt |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 find | obj |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 family | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 family | nmod:poss |
| 15 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 family | compound |
| 16 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 more | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 find | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | 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 | grow up | present | adopted people | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find out | can | people | more | usually property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Topic |
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:44.
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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