Kinship care: living with Gran or an aunt, sentence 41
«Grandma, I'm bored.» «Boredom builds character, baby.» He laughs, and goes anyway.
Who acts: Auntie, Boredom · What happens: be, build, laugh, go · To what, where: character · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Kinship care: living with Gran or an aunt» 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 (Auntie, Boredom), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 bored | punct |
| 2 | Grandma | grandma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bored | vocative |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bored | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 bored | nsubj |
| 5 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bored | cop |
| 6 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bored | punct |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 bored | punct |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 bored | punct |
| 10 | Boredom | boredom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 builds | nsubj |
| 11 | builds | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bored | parataxis |
| 12 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 builds | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 baby | punct |
| 14 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 builds | vocative |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 builds | punct |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 bored | punct |
| 17 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 laughs | nsubj |
| 18 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bored | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 goes | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 goes | cc |
| 21 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 laughs | conj |
| 22 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 21 goes | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bored | 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 | is in a quote | present | Auntie | Grandma vocative; bored property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | build in a quote | present | Boredom | character | baby vocative | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset character=Product | |||
| 3 | laugh | present | Boredom | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go | present | Boredom not said here | anyway property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt.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): R2-punct-next ×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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