A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents, sentence 2

Parents are people too: they argue sometimes, get ill, sad or very tired, and work long hours; children never cause grown-ups' arguments, and they can help a little, but they should not have to look after a parent alone.

Who acts: Parents, children · What happens: be, argue, get, work, not cause, grow · To what, where: people, ups arguments, little

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 (Parents, children), 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	Parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 people	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 people	cop
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	3 people	advmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 argue	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 argue	nsubj
7	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 people	parataxis
8	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 argue	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 get	punct
10	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 argue	conj
11	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 get	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sad	punct
13	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ill	conj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 tired	cc
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 tired	advmod
16	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ill	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 work	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 work	cc
19	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 argue	conj
20	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hours	amod
21	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 work	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 people	punct
23	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 cause	nsubj
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 cause	advmod
25	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 people	parataxis
26	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 ups	amod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 ups	punct
28	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 arguments	compound
29	'	's	PART	_	28 ups	case
30	arguments	argument	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 cause	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 help	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 help	cc
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 help	nsubj
34	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 help	aux
35	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 cause	parataxis
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 little	det
37	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 help	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 have	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 have	cc
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 have	nsubj
41	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 have	aux
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 have	advmod
43	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 help	conj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 look	mark
45	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 have	xcomp
46	after	after	ADP	_	48 parent	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 parent	det
48	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 look	obl
49	alone	alone	ADV	_	45 look	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 people	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Parents	people			tree rules
2	argue speech: disagree	present	children = child			sometimes property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	get	present	children = child not said here			ill property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	work	present	children = child not said here		hour		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not cause	present	children	ups arguments			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition argument=Patient
6	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	help	can	children = child	a little			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Beneficiary
8	not have	should	children = child				tree rules
9	look	to-infinitive	children = child not said here		after a parent	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:2.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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