When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babies and big changes, sentence 1
On Christmas Day Ellie's parents had a row and Mum cried in the kitchen; Ellie sat with her presents thinking, "Christmas is ruined.
Who acts: parents, Ellie · What happens: have, cry, sit, think, ruin · To what, where: row, Christmas, kitchen · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (parents, Ellie), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 Christmas | case |
| 2 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obl |
| 3 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Christmas | flat |
| 4 | Ellie | Ellie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 parents | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Ellie | case |
| 6 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sat | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 row | det |
| 9 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Mum | cc |
| 11 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 row | conj |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 kitchen | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 kitchen | det |
| 15 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 17 | Ellie | Ellie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 sat | nsubj |
| 18 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 presents | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 presents | nmod:poss |
| 21 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sat | obl |
| 22 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 sat | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 thinking | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 thinking | punct |
| 25 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 ruined | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 ruined | aux:pass |
| 27 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 thinking | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Ellie's parents | a row and Mum | Christmas | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent row=Patient | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Ellie's parents not said here | the kitchen | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kitchen=Location | ||||
| 3 | sit | past | Ellie | with Christmas's presents | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | gerund | Ellie not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | ruin in a quote | present · passive | Christmas | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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:1.
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, R6-punct-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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