Grandparents, divorce and step-families, sentence 0

Grandparents carry family history that only they can tell; listening to their stories and asking questions is a gift to both of you, and if a grandparent becomes forgetful because of an illness like dementia, they still love you and need patience.

Who acts: Grandparents, listening, grandparent · What happens: carry, tell, listen, ask, be, become · To what, where: family history, questions, gift, you, patience · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Grandparents, divorce and step-families» 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 (Grandparents, listening, grandparent), 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	Grandparents	grandparent	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carry	nsubj
2	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 history	compound
4	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carry	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 tell	obj
6	only	only	ADV	_	9 tell	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tell	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	aux
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 history	acl:relcl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 gift	punct
11	listening	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 gift	csubj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 stories	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 stories	nmod:poss
14	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 listening	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 asking	cc
16	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 listening	conj
17	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 asking	obj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 gift	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 gift	det
20	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carry	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 both	case
22	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	20 gift	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 you	case
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 both	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 becomes	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 becomes	cc
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 becomes	mark
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 grandparent	det
29	grandparent	grandparent	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 becomes	nsubj
30	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 carry	conj
31	forgetful	forgetful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 becomes	xcomp
32	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	35 illness	case
33	of	of	ADP	_	32 because	fixed
34	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 illness	det
35	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 forgetful	obl
36	like	like	ADP	_	37 dementia	case
37	dementia	dementia	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 illness	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 love	punct
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 love	nsubj
40	still	still	ADV	_	41 love	advmod
41	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 carry	parataxis
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 love	obj
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 need	cc
44	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 love	conj
45	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 need	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 carry	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	Grandparents	family history			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	can	Grandparents = grandparent	family history			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient
3	listen	gerund				to Grandparents's stories	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to story=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	gerund		questions			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
5	is a	present	listening	a gift		to both	tree rules
6	become a condition, not said to happen	present	a grandparent			forgetful property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
7	love	present	Grandparents = grandparent	you	still		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
8	need	present	Grandparents = grandparent not said here	patience			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot patience=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:096-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families.lesson:0.

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): 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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