How babies learn to talk, sentence 13
Young children usually pick up accents and sounds more easily, but adults can still learn languages well and are often quicker at grammar and new words at first.
Who acts: Young children, adults · What happens: pick up, learn, be · To what, where: accents, languages, grammar
This is a sentence of the lesson «How babies learn to talk» of the language 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 (Young children, adults), 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 | Young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 children | amod |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pick | nsubj |
| 3 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 4 pick | advmod |
| 4 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 pick | compound:prt |
| 6 | accents | accent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pick | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sounds | cc |
| 8 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 accents | conj |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 easily | advmod |
| 10 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 6 accents | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 learn | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 learn | cc |
| 13 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 learn | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 learn | aux |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 learn | advmod |
| 16 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pick | conj |
| 17 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 learn | obj |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 learn | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 quicker | cc |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 quicker | cop |
| 21 | often | often | ADV | _ | 22 quicker | advmod |
| 22 | quicker | quick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 learn | conj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 grammar | case |
| 24 | grammar | grammar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 quicker | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 words | cc |
| 26 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 words | amod |
| 27 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 grammar | conj |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 first | case |
| 29 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 grammar | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pick | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | present | Young children | accents and sounds | usually property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accent=Topic | |||
| 2 | learn | can | adults | languages | still | well property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Topic | ||
| 3 | is | present | adults not said here | grammar and new words | often, quick property | tree rules |
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:language:031-how-babies-learn-to-talk.lesson:13.
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, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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