Grandparents, divorce and step-families, sentence 10
Children should not be asked to choose between parents or put in the middle.
Who acts: Children · What happens: not ask, choose, put · To what, where: Children, middle
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 (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 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 asked | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 asked | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 asked | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 asked | aux:pass |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 choose | mark |
| 7 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 asked | xcomp |
| 8 | between | between | ADP | _ | 9 parents | case |
| 9 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 choose | obl |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 put | cc |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 choose | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 middle | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 middle | det |
| 14 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not ask speech: ask | should · passive | Children | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | choose not said to happen | to-infinitive | Children not said here | between parents | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | Children not said here | the middle | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in middle=Destination |
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:10.
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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