Moving, new schools, change and grief, sentence 0
Big changes, like moving house, starting a new school or a new year group, feel strange at first because everything is unfamiliar; knowing what to expect, keeping usual routines and giving yourself time make them feel normal again.
Who acts: Big changes, everything, routines · What happens: move, start, feel, be, know, expect · To what, where: house, new school, usual routines, yourself, routines · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Moving, new schools, change and grief» 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 (Big changes, everything, routines), 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 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 changes | amod |
| 2 | changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 feel | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 moving | punct |
| 4 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 5 moving | mark |
| 5 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 changes | acl |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moving | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 starting | punct |
| 8 | starting | start | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 moving | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 school | det |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 school | amod |
| 11 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 starting | obj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 group | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 group | det |
| 14 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 group | amod |
| 15 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 group | compound |
| 16 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 school | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 changes | punct |
| 18 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 19 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 feel | xcomp |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 first | case |
| 21 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 strange | obl |
| 22 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 25 unfamiliar | mark |
| 23 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 25 unfamiliar | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 unfamiliar | cop |
| 25 | unfamiliar | unfamiliar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 feel | advcl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 knowing | punct |
| 27 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 unfamiliar | advcl |
| 28 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 30 expect | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 expect | mark |
| 30 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 knowing | ccomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 keeping | punct |
| 32 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 knowing | conj |
| 33 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 routines | amod |
| 34 | routines | routine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 keeping | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 giving | cc |
| 36 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 keeping | conj |
| 37 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 36 giving | iobj |
| 38 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 giving | obj |
| 39 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 giving | advcl |
| 40 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 make | obj |
| 41 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 make | xcomp |
| 42 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 feel | xcomp |
| 43 | again | again | ADV | _ | 41 feel | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | gerund | Big changes not said here | house | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 2 | start | gerund | Big changes not said here | a new school or a new year group | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | feel | infinitive | Big changes | strange property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | present | everything | unfamiliar property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | know | gerund | everything not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | expect | to-infinitive | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | keep | gerund | everything not said here | usual routines | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent routine=Theme | ||||
| 8 | give | gerund | everything not said here | yourself | time | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme | |||
| 9 | make | infinitive | everything not said here | routines = routine | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | feel | infinitive | routines = routine not said here | again | normal property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:097-moving-change-and-grief.lesson:0.
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 ×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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