Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries and big questions, sentence 14
"Existential" questions are big questions about life and why we are here; almost everyone wonders about them sometimes.
Who acts: Existential questions, we, everyone · What happens: be, wonder · To what, where: big questions
This is a sentence of the lesson «Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries and big questions» 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 (Existential questions, we, everyone), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Existential | punct |
| 2 | Existential | existential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 questions | amod |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Existential | punct |
| 4 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 questions | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 questions | cop |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 questions | amod |
| 7 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 life | case |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 questions | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 here | cc |
| 11 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 here | advmod |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 here | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 here | cop |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 questions | acl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 wonders | punct |
| 16 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 17 everyone | advmod |
| 17 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 18 wonders | nsubj |
| 18 | wonders | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 questions | parataxis |
| 19 | about | about | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wonders | obl |
| 21 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 wonders | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 questions | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Existential questions | big questions | about life | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | we | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | present | everyone | about people; sometimes property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about they=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:002-grief-has-no-timetable-houses-anniversaries-and-big-questions.lesson:14.
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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