A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents, sentence 4
A girl in Texas wants to hold her baby brother; she sits on the sofa, her mum lays him in her arms, and she keeps one hand under his wobbly head the whole time.
Who acts: girl, mum · What happens: want, hold, sit, lay, keep · To what, where: baby brother, sofa, parent, arms, one hand, wobbly head
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 (girl, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wants | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Texas | case |
| 4 | Texas | Texas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hold | mark |
| 7 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wants | xcomp |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 brother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brother | compound |
| 10 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hold | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 sits | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sits | nsubj |
| 13 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wants | parataxis |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 sofa | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sofa | det |
| 16 | sofa | sofa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sits | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lays | punct |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mum | nmod:poss |
| 19 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lays | nsubj |
| 20 | lays | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sits | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lays | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 arms | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 arms | nmod:poss |
| 24 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lays | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 keeps | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 keeps | cc |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 keeps | nsubj |
| 28 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wants | conj |
| 29 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 hand | nummod |
| 30 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 keeps | obj |
| 31 | under | under | ADP | _ | 34 head | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 head | nmod:poss |
| 33 | wobbly | wobbly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 head | amod |
| 34 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 keeps | obl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 time | det |
| 36 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 time | amod |
| 37 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 keeps | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wants | punct |
Pragmatics
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- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | a girl in Texas | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hold not said to happen | to-infinitive | a girl in Texas not said here | girl's baby brother | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit | present | girl | the sofa | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sofa=Location | ||||
| 4 | lay | present | girl's mum | parent | girl's arms | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in arm=Destination | |||
| 5 | keep | present | mum | one hand | parent's wobbly head | time | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme under head=Location |
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:4.
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): R6-punct-agree ×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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