Grandparents, divorce and step-families, sentence 17

A girl in Sydney did not want to visit her grandma in hospital, and later wished she had; she wrote her a letter instead and her grandma kept it by the bed.

Who acts: girl, grandma · What happens: not want, visit, wish, have, write, keep · To what, where: grandma, hospital, letter, Sydney · 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 (girl, grandma), 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 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Sydney	case
4	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 want	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 want	advmod
7	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 visit	mark
9	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 want	xcomp
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 grandma	nmod:poss
11	grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 visit	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 hospital	case
13	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 visit	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wished	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wished	cc
16	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 wished	advmod
17	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 want	conj
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 wished	ccomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 wrote	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 wrote	nsubj
22	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 want	parataxis
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 wrote	iobj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 letter	det
25	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wrote	obj
26	instead	instead	ADV	_	22 wrote	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 kept	cc
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 grandma	nmod:poss
29	grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 kept	nsubj
30	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 wrote	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 kept	obj
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 bed	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 bed	det
34	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 kept	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	a girl in Sydney					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	visit not said to happen	to-infinitive	a girl in Sydney not said here	girl's grandma		hospital		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandma=Co-Agent
3	wish	past	a girl in Sydney not said here				late property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	have	past	girl					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	write	past	girl	a letter	Sydney		instead property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient letter=Topic
6	keep	past	girl's grandma	letter			by the bed	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme by bed=Location

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:17.

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): R1-cc-next ×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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