When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babies and big changes, sentence 0
Home is meant to be the steady place, so when it wobbles, with a row on Christmas Day, a mum in hospital, a new baby or a move nobody is sure about, a child can feel the ground shift under his feet.
Who acts: Home, nobody, child · What happens: mean, be, wobble, feel · To what, where: Home, Christmas, steady place, ground shift, feet
This is a sentence of the lesson «When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babies and big changes» 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 (Home, nobody, 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 | Home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 meant | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 meant | aux:pass |
| 3 | meant | mean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 place | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 place | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 place | det |
| 7 | steady | steady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 place | amod |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 meant | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wobbles | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 wobbles | advmod |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 wobbles | advmod |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wobbles | nsubj |
| 13 | wobbles | wobble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 feel | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 row | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 row | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 row | det |
| 17 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wobbles | obl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 Christmas | case |
| 19 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 meant | obl |
| 20 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Christmas | flat |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 mum | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 mum | det |
| 23 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Christmas | appos |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 hospital | case |
| 25 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 mum | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 baby | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 baby | det |
| 28 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 baby | amod |
| 29 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 mum | conj |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 sure | cc |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 move | det |
| 32 | move | move | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 nobody | compound |
| 33 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 35 sure | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 sure | cop |
| 35 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 baby | conj |
| 36 | about | about | ADP | _ | 35 sure | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 about | punct |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 child | det |
| 39 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 feel | nsubj |
| 40 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 feel | aux |
| 41 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 meant | conj |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 shift | det |
| 43 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 shift | compound |
| 44 | shift | shift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 feel | obj |
| 45 | under | under | ADP | _ | 47 feet | case |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 feet | nmod:poss |
| 47 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 feel | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 meant | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present · passive | Home | Christmas | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | the steady place | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wobble | present | Home | with a row | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | nobody | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | feel | can | a child | the ground shift | child's feet | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shift=Theme under foot=Location |
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:014-when-home-feels-shaky-rows-hospitals-new-babies-and-big-changes.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): R5-strong ×5, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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