Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not your fault, sentence 6
Parents argue about grown-up things like money, tiredness and work; it is never caused by the child, and a child being perfect cannot stop it.
Who acts: Parents, child · What happens: argue, grow up, not cause, be, not stop · To what, where: parent
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 (Parents, 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 | Parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 argue | nsubj |
| 2 | argue | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 things | case |
| 4 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 things | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 up | punct |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 grown | compound:prt |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 argue | obl |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 money | case |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 things | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tiredness | punct |
| 11 | tiredness | tiredness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 money | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 work | cc |
| 13 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tiredness | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 caused | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 caused | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 caused | aux:pass |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 caused | advmod |
| 18 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 argue | parataxis |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 child | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 child | det |
| 21 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 caused | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 stop | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 stop | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 child | det |
| 25 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stop | nsubj |
| 26 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 perfect | cop |
| 27 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 child | acl |
| 28 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 stop | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 stop | advmod |
| 30 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 caused | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 stop | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 argue | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | argue speech: disagree | present | Parents | about grown things like money and tiredness and work | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about thing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | grow up | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | not cause | present · passive | the child | parent | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | gerund | a child not said here | perfect property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not stop | can | a child | parent | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality |
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:6.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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