Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries and big questions, sentence 3
Then she found an old recipe in Grandma's handwriting, and cooking it with Mum every Sunday made her feel close to Grandma again: places hold memories, but memories live in people, not only in bricks and mortar.
Who acts: she, cooking, Grandma, places, memories · What happens: find, cook, make, feel, hold, live · To what, where: old recipe, handwriting, recipe, Grandma, memories, bricks
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 (she, cooking, Grandma, places), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 found | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 recipe | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 recipe | amod |
| 6 | recipe | recipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 handwriting | case |
| 8 | Grandma | Grandma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 handwriting | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Grandma | case |
| 10 | handwriting | handwriting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 recipe | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 made | cc |
| 13 | cooking | cook | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 made | csubj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cooking | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 Mum | case |
| 16 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cooking | obl |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 Sunday | det |
| 18 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 cooking | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 made | obj |
| 21 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 made | xcomp |
| 22 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 feel | xcomp |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 Grandma | case |
| 24 | Grandma | Grandma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 close | obl |
| 25 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 feel | advmod |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 hold | punct |
| 27 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 hold | nsubj |
| 28 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 made | parataxis |
| 29 | memories | memory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 hold | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 live | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 live | cc |
| 32 | memories | memory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 live | nsubj |
| 33 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 hold | conj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 people | case |
| 35 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 live | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 bricks | punct |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 bricks | advmod |
| 38 | only | only | ADV | _ | 40 bricks | advmod |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 bricks | case |
| 40 | bricks | brick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 live | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 mortar | cc |
| 42 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 bricks | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | she | a old recipe | Grandma's handwriting | then | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recipe=Topic | ||
| 2 | cook | gerund | recipe | sunday | with Mum | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with mum=Instrument | |||
| 3 | make | past | cooking | Grandma | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | feel | infinitive | Grandma not said here | again | close property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | hold | present | places | memories | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Theme | ||||
| 6 | live | present | memories | bricks and mortar | in people | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in people=Location | |||
| 7 | handwrite | Grandma | nom handwriting «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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: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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/2-grief-has-no-timetable-houses-anniversaries-and-big-questions/3/