Strangers and tricky people, sentence 13
A family password helps a child check whether a parent really sent someone.
Who acts: family password, child, parent · What happens: help, check, send · To what, where: child, someone
This is a sentence of the lesson «Strangers and tricky people» 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 (family password, child, parent), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 password | det |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 password | compound |
| 3 | password | password | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 helps | nsubj |
| 4 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 helps | obj |
| 7 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 helps | xcomp |
| 8 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 12 sent | mark |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 parent | det |
| 10 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | nsubj |
| 11 | really | really | ADV | _ | 12 sent | advmod |
| 12 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 check | ccomp |
| 13 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 sent | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | a family password | a child | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | check | infinitive | a child not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | send | past | a parent | someone | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=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:058-strangers-and-tricky-people.lesson:13.
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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