Grandparents, divorce and step-families, sentence 3
Step-families and blended families take time to work out; being polite and giving each other time and space helps, and if you are adopted or fostered, your story is yours to share or keep.
Who acts: Step families, story · What happens: blend, take, work out, be, give, help · To what, where: you, yours
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 (Step families, story), 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 | Step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 families | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 families | punct |
| 3 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 take | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 families | cc |
| 5 | blended | blend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 families | amod |
| 6 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 families | conj |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 work | mark |
| 10 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 time | acl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 work | compound:prt |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 polite | punct |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 polite | cop |
| 14 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 helps | csubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 giving | cc |
| 16 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 polite | conj |
| 17 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 time | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 time | amod |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 giving | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 space | cc |
| 21 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 time | conj |
| 22 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 yours | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 yours | cc |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 adopted | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 adopted | nsubj |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 adopted | aux:pass |
| 28 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 yours | advcl |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 fostered | cc |
| 30 | fostered | foster | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 adopted | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 adopted | punct |
| 32 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 story | nmod:poss |
| 33 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 yours | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 yours | cop |
| 35 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 helps | conj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 share | mark |
| 37 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 yours | advcl |
| 38 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 39 keep | cc |
| 39 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 share | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | 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 | take | present | Step families and blended families | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | work out | to-infinitive | Step families and blended families not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | gerund | polite property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | give | gerund | time | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | help | present | Step families and blended families not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | adopt a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | you | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 8 | foster | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 9 | is a | present | your story | yours | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | share | to-infinitive | your story not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 11 | keep | infinitive | your story not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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:3.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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