Grandparents, divorce and step-families, sentence 16
A boy in Ohio believed his parents' divorce was his fault and kept it secret for a year; he became quiet and angry until a counsellor helped him see it was not his fault at all.
Who acts: boy, divorce, counsellor, parents · What happens: believe, be, keep, become, help, see · To what, where: fault, Divorce, boy, all · 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 (boy, divorce, counsellor, parents), 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 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 believed | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Ohio | case |
| 4 | Ohio | Ohio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 parents | nmod:poss |
| 7 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 divorce | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 7 parents | case |
| 9 | divorce | divorce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fault | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fault | cop |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 fault | nmod:poss |
| 12 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 believed | ccomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 kept | cc |
| 14 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 believed | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 kept | obj |
| 16 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 kept | xcomp |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 year | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 year | det |
| 19 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 kept | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 became | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 became | nsubj |
| 22 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 believed | parataxis |
| 23 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 became | xcomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 angry | cc |
| 25 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 quiet | conj |
| 26 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 29 helped | mark |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 counsellor | det |
| 28 | counsellor | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 helped | nsubj |
| 29 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 became | advcl |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 helped | obj |
| 31 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 helped | xcomp |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 fault | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 fault | cop |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 fault | advmod |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 fault | nmod:poss |
| 36 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 see | ccomp |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 all | case |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 fault | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | past | a boy in Ohio | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | boy's parents's divorce | boy's fault | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | keep | past | a boy in Ohio not said here | Divorce | year | secret property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||
| 4 | become | past | boy | quiet property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | help | past | a counsellor | boy | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | see | infinitive | boy not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | not is a | past | counsellor | boy's fault | all | tree rules | |||
| 8 | divorce | boy's parents | nom divorce «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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:16.
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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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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