Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not your fault, sentence 3
The truth is that grown-ups argue about grown-up things like money, tiredness and work; a child does not cause it and a perfect child cannot stop it, so that heavy job was never hers to carry.
Who acts: truth, grown ups, child, perfect child, heavy job, Maisie · What happens: be, grow, argue, grow up, not cause, not stop · To what, where: truth, Maisie
This is a sentence of the lesson «Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not your fault» of the reflection 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 (truth, grown ups, child, perfect child), 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 | 2 truth | det |
| 2 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 argue | mark |
| 5 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ups | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 grown | punct |
| 7 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 argue | nsubj |
| 8 | argue | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 is | ccomp |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 things | case |
| 10 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 things | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 up | punct |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 grown | compound:prt |
| 13 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 argue | obl |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 money | case |
| 15 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 things | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tiredness | punct |
| 17 | tiredness | tiredness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 money | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 work | cc |
| 19 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tiredness | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 cause | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 child | det |
| 22 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cause | nsubj |
| 23 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 cause | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 cause | advmod |
| 25 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 is | parataxis |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 cause | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 stop | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 child | det |
| 29 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 child | amod |
| 30 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 stop | nsubj |
| 31 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 stop | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 stop | advmod |
| 33 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 cause | conj |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 stop | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 carry | punct |
| 36 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 44 carry | mark |
| 37 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 job | det |
| 38 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 job | amod |
| 39 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 hers | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 hers | cop |
| 41 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 42 hers | advmod |
| 42 | hers | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 carry | nsubj |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 carry | mark |
| 44 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 cause | parataxis |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | the truth | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | argue speech: disagree | present | grown ups | about grown things like money and tiredness and work | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about thing=Topic | ||||
| 4 | grow up | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | not cause | present · do-support | a child | truth | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition it=Patient | ||||
| 6 | not stop | can | a perfect child | truth | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | not is a | past | that heavy job | Maisie | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | carry | to-infinitive | Maisie | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:reflection:012-parents-shouting-parents-splitting-it-s-not-your-fault.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): R4-particle ×1, 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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