Candles and party bags, sentence 1
When several children have a cake each, add up their new ages to find all the candles.
Who acts: several children, you · What happens: have, add up, find · To what, where: cake, new ages, candles
This is a sentence of the lesson «Candles and party bags» of the lessons 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 (several children, you), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 have | mark |
| 2 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 children | amod |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 add | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cake | det |
| 6 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | each | each | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 have | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 9 | add | add | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 add | compound:prt |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 ages | nmod:poss |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ages | amod |
| 13 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 add | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 find | mark |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 add | advcl |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 candles | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 candles | det |
| 18 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 find | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 add | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | several children | a cake | each property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient | |||
| 2 | add up speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | their new ages | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Patient | ||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | you not said here | all candles | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=Topic |
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:lessons:256-birthday-candles.lesson:1.
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): no change. 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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