Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground, sentence 3

The best move is to add to what someone knows instead of knocking it down: "You're right about grown-ups, Grandad, and babies actually have more bones!"

Who acts: best move, someone, You, babies · What happens: be, know, knock down, grow, have · To what, where: move, more bones · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground» of the myths 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 (best move, someone, You, babies), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 move	det
2	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 move	amod
3	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 add	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 add	cop
5	to	to	PART	_	6 add	mark
6	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 what	case
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 add	obl
9	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 knows	nsubj
10	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 what	acl:relcl
11	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	13 knocking	mark
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 instead	fixed
13	knocking	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 add	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 knocking	obj
15	down	down	ADP	_	13 knocking	compound:prt
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 right	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 right	punct
18	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 right	nsubj
19	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 right	cop
20	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 add	advcl
21	about	about	ADP	_	24 ups	case
22	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 ups	amod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 grown	punct
24	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 right	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Grandad	punct
26	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 right	vocative
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 have	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 have	cc
29	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 have	nsubj
30	actually	actually	ADV	_	31 have	advmod
31	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 right	advcl
32	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 bones	amod
33	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 have	obj
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 add	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 add	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	be speech: assert	present	the best move		add property	tree rules
2	know	present	someone			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	knock down	gerund	the best move not said here	move		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	is in a quote	present	You		about grown ups; Grandad vocative; right property	tree rules
5	grow in a quote	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	have in a quote	present	babies	more bones	actually property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient

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:myths:032-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground.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): 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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