Grandparents, divorce and step-families, sentence 14
Blended families get on better when they find shared activities and give each other space.
Who acts: Blended families, families · What happens: blend, get on, find, share, give · To what, where: shared activities, other space
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 (Blended families, families), 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 | Blended | blend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 families | amod |
| 2 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 get | nsubj |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 get | advmod |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 get | xcomp |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 find | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 find | nsubj |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | advcl |
| 9 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 activities | amod |
| 10 | activities | activity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 find | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 give | cc |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 find | conj |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 space | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 space | amod |
| 15 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blend | participle | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | get on | present | Blended families | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | find | present | families = family | shared activities | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent activity=Topic | ||||
| 4 | share | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | give | present | families = family not said here | each other space | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=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:14.
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): R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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