Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness, sentence 0

Some hard things at home are not one big bang but a slow drip: a dad who keeps not turning up, a dinner table nobody talks at, a fridge that is empty by Thursday, a mum always on her phone.

Who acts: hard things, dad, nobody, fridge · What happens: not be, keep, not turn up, talk, be · To what, where: one big bang, dinner table

This is a sentence of the lesson «Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness» 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 (hard things, dad, nobody, fridge), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 things	det
2	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 things	amod
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bang	nsubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 home	case
5	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 things	nmod
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bang	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 bang	advmod
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 bang	nummod
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bang	amod
10	bang	bang	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 drip	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 drip	det
13	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 drip	amod
14	drip	drip	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bang	conj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 dad	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 dad	det
17	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drip	appos
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 keeps	nsubj
19	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 dad	acl:relcl
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 turning	advmod
21	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 keeps	xcomp
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 turning	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 table	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 table	det
25	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 table	compound
26	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drip	appos
27	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	28 talks	nsubj
28	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 table	acl:relcl
29	at	at	ADP	_	28 talks	case
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fridge	punct
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 fridge	det
32	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bang	appos
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 empty	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 empty	cop
35	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 fridge	acl:relcl
36	by	by	ADP	_	37 Thursday	case
37	Thursday	Thursday	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 empty	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 mum	punct
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 mum	det
40	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drip	appos
41	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	40 mum	advmod
42	on	on	ADP	_	44 phone	case
43	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 phone	nmod:poss
44	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 mum	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 bang	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	some hard things at home	one big bang but a slow drip			tree rules
2	keep	present	a dad				tree rules
3	not turn up	gerund	a dad not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	talk	present	nobody	a dinner table not said here			vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent table=Patient
5	is	present	a fridge		thursday	empty property	tree rules

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:013-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness.lesson:0.

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): R6-punct-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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