Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends, sentence 9
Different generations grew up in different times; news reports said older and younger people often voted very differently, for example in the Brexit vote of 2016, when the UK voted on leaving the European Union.
Who acts: Different generations, news reports, older people, UK · What happens: grow up, say, vote, leave · To what, where: Brexit vote, European Union · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends» of the politics 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 (Different generations, news reports, older people, UK), 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 | Different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 generations | amod |
| 2 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 grew | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 times | case |
| 6 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 times | amod |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grew | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 9 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reports | compound |
| 10 | reports | report | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | parataxis |
| 12 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 people | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 younger | cc |
| 14 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 older | conj |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 voted | nsubj |
| 16 | often | often | ADV | _ | 17 voted | advmod |
| 17 | voted | vote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 differently | advmod |
| 19 | differently | differently | ADV | _ | 17 voted | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 example | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 example | case |
| 22 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 voted | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 vote | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 vote | det |
| 25 | Brexit | Brexit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 vote | compound |
| 26 | vote | vote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 voted | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 2016 | case |
| 28 | 2016 | 2016 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 vote | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 voted | punct |
| 30 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 voted | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 UK | det |
| 32 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 voted | nsubj |
| 33 | voted | vote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 34 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 35 leaving | mark |
| 35 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 voted | advcl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Union | det |
| 37 | European | European | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Union | compound |
| 38 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 leaving | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | past | Different generations | time | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | news reports | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | vote | past | older people | the Brexit vote of 2016 | for example goal; differently, often property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for example=Goal | |||
| 4 | vote | past | the UK | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | leave | gerund | the UK not said here | the European Union | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent union=Theme |
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:politics:015-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends.lesson:9.
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, R8-pos-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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