Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much, sentence 4

What she came to understand: moving countries is hard for anyone, homesickness is the ache for the place and people you left, and teasing about accents is often curiosity done badly; accents fade or become something people like.

Who acts: girl, moving, homesickness, you, teasing, accents · What happens: come, understand, move, be, leave, tease · To what, where: countries, ache, people, curiosity, something · 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 (girl, moving, homesickness, you), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 understand	obj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 understand	mark
5	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	xcomp
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 hard	punct
7	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 hard	csubj
8	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 moving	obj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 hard	cop
10	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 understand	ccomp
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 anyone	case
12	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 hard	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ache	punct
14	homesickness	homesickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ache	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 ache	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ache	det
17	ache	ache	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hard	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 place	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 place	det
20	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ache	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 people	cc
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 place	conj
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 left	nsubj
24	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 people	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 curiosity	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 teasing	cc
27	teasing	tease	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 curiosity	csubj
28	about	about	ADP	_	29 accents	case
29	accents	accent	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 teasing	obl
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 curiosity	cop
31	often	often	ADV	_	32 curiosity	advmod
32	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hard	conj
33	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 curiosity	acl
34	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 done	advmod
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 fade	punct
36	accents	accent	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 fade	nsubj
37	fade	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 become	conj
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 become	cc
39	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	conj
40	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	39 become	obj
41	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 like	nsubj
42	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 something	acl:relcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 hard	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	girl			tree rules
2	understand	to-infinitive	girl not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
3	move	gerund		countries		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent country=Theme
4	is	present	moving		for anyone; hard property	tree rules
5	is a	present	homesickness	the ache	for the place and people	tree rules
6	leave	past	you	people not said here		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
7	tease	gerund			about accents	vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	is a	present	teasing	curiosity	often property	tree rules
9	do	participle		curiosity not said here	badly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	fade	present	accents			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
11	become	infinitive	girl not said here	something		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient something=Result
12	like	present	people			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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:4.

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 ×2, R6-punct-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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