When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babies and big changes, sentence 3
Why do they have to do it TODAY?", and for weeks Christmas songs made her feel flat.
Who acts: parents, Christmas songs, Christmas · What happens: have, do, make, feel · To what, where: row, Christmas
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, Christmas songs, Christmas), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 have | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | xcomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 do | obj |
| 8 | TODAY | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 made | cc |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 weeks | case |
| 14 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 made | obl |
| 15 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 songs | compound |
| 16 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 made | nsubj |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | conj |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 made | obj |
| 19 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 made | xcomp |
| 20 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 feel | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · do-support | parents = parent | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | parents = parent not said here | row | today | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | make in a quote | past | Christmas songs | Christmas | week | tree rules | |||
| 4 | feel in a quote | infinitive | Christmas not said here | flat property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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: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): no change. 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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