Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much, sentence 0
Moving to the other side of the world can make your own voice feel like a target: Holly's family moved from England to Australia, kids copied her accent with "Cup of tea, guv'nor?", and at night she thought: "Everyone laughs when I talk.
Who acts: Moving, family, kids, Everyone · What happens: move, make, copy, think, laugh, talk · To what, where: other side, voice feel, Australia, England, accent · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much» 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 (Moving, family, kids, 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 | Moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 make | csubj |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 side | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 side | det |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 side | amod |
| 5 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Moving | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 world | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 world | det |
| 8 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 side | nmod |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 make | aux |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 voice | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 voice | amod |
| 13 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 feel | compound |
| 14 | feel | feel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 target | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 target | det |
| 17 | target | target | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 feel | obl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 moved | punct |
| 19 | Holly | Holly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 family | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 Holly | case |
| 21 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 moved | nsubj |
| 22 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 make | parataxis |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 England | case |
| 24 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 moved | obl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Australia | case |
| 26 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 moved | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 copied | punct |
| 28 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 copied | nsubj |
| 29 | copied | copy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 moved | conj |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 accent | nmod:poss |
| 31 | accent | accent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 copied | obj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 Cup | case |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 Cup | punct |
| 34 | Cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 copied | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 tea | case |
| 36 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Cup | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 guv'nor | punct |
| 38 | guv'nor | guv'nor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Cup | appos |
| 39 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 38 guv'nor | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 Cup | punct |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 thought | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 thought | cc |
| 43 | at | at | ADP | _ | 44 night | case |
| 44 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 thought | obl |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 thought | nsubj |
| 46 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 copied | conj |
| 47 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 50 laughs | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 50 laughs | punct |
| 49 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 50 laughs | nsubj |
| 50 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 thought | ccomp |
| 51 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 53 talk | advmod |
| 52 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 53 talk | nsubj |
| 53 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 50 laughs | advcl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | gerund | the other side of the world | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to side=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | make | can | Moving | voice feel | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset feel=Product | ||||
| 3 | move | past | Holly's family | Australia | England | vn slide-11.2 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from england=Initial_Location to australia=Destination | |||
| 4 | copy | past | kids | family's accent | with Cup of tea | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accent=Theme | |||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | family | night | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | laugh in a quote | present | Everyone | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | talk in a quote | present | family | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | accent | family | nom accent «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:022-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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