Grandparents, divorce and step-families, sentence 13
Getting close to a new step-parent takes time for everyone, so be polite and patient.
Who acts: Getting · What happens: get, take, be
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 (Getting), 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 | Getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 takes | csubj |
| 2 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Getting | xcomp |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 parent | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 parent | det |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 parent | amod |
| 6 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 parent | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 step | punct |
| 8 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Getting | obl |
| 9 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 takes | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 everyone | case |
| 12 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 time | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 polite | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 polite | advmod |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 polite | cop |
| 16 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 takes | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 patient | cc |
| 18 | patient | patient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 polite | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | gerund | to a new step parent result; close property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to parent=Result | |||||
| 2 | take | present | Getting | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | polite property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | be | tree rules |
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:13.
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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