A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents, sentence 12
Children can help a parent who is ill or tired, but should not have to look after them alone.
Who acts: Children, parent · What happens: help, be, not have, look · To what, where: parent
This is a sentence of the lesson «A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents» 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 (Children, 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 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 help | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 help | aux |
| 3 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 parent | det |
| 5 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 help | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 ill | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ill | cop |
| 8 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 parent | acl:relcl |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 tired | cc |
| 10 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ill | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 have | cc |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 have | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 have | advmod |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 help | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 look | mark |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 have | xcomp |
| 18 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 look | obl |
| 20 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 17 look | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | can | Children | a parent | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a parent | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | a parent not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | not have | should | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | look | to-infinitive | after children = child | alone property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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:095-babies-siblings-and-parents.lesson:12.
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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