When nobody sits with you: making friends again, sentence 12
Some families do not celebrate birthdays for religious reasons; explaining calmly helps most friends understand.
Who acts: families, explaining, most friends · What happens: not celebrate, explain, help, understand · To what, where: birthdays
This is a sentence of the lesson «When nobody sits with you: making friends again» 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 (families, explaining, most friends), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 families | det |
| 2 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 celebrate | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 celebrate | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 celebrate | advmod |
| 5 | celebrate | celebrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | birthdays | birthday | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 celebrate | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 reasons | case |
| 8 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 reasons | amod |
| 9 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 celebrate | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 helps | punct |
| 11 | explaining | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 helps | csubj |
| 12 | calmly | calmly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 explaining | advmod |
| 13 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 celebrate | parataxis |
| 14 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 friends | amod |
| 15 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 understand | nsubj |
| 16 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 helps | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 celebrate | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not celebrate | present · do-support | some families | birthdays | for religious reasons | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent birthday=Theme for reason=Attribute | |||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | gerund | calmly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | help | present | explaining | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | understand | present | most friends | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:023-when-nobody-sits-with-you-making-friends-again.lesson:12.
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): R7-rel-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.
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