Adoption, sentence 8

Isla always knew she was adopted; her mum and dad told her when she was tiny, with a picture book about a family.

Who acts: Isla, mum · What happens: know, adopt, tell, be · To what, where: Isla · 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 (Isla, mum), 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	Isla	Isla	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 knew	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 knew	advmod
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 adopted	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 adopted	aux:pass
6	adopted	adopt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 knew	ccomp
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mum	nmod:poss
9	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dad	cc
11	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mum	conj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	parataxis
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 tiny	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tiny	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 tiny	cop
17	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 told	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 book	punct
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 book	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 book	det
21	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 book	compound
22	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	obl
23	about	about	ADP	_	25 family	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 family	det
25	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 book	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	Isla			always property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	adopt	past · passive		Isla			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	Isla's mum and dad		Isla	with a picture book about a family	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	is	past	Isla			tiny 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:8.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-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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