Life begins: being born and growing up, sentence 1
Picture Sunday lunch at Ellie's house: her aunt's new baby wraps his whole hand round Ellie's finger; nine years ago Ellie was that small too, and so was every grown-up at the table.
Who acts: you, new baby, Ellie · What happens: picture, wrap, be · To what, where: Sunday lunch, house, whole hand, grown, table
This is a sentence of the lesson «Life begins: being born and growing up» of the religion ethics 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 (you, new baby, Ellie), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lunch | compound |
| 3 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 5 | Ellie | Ellie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 house | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Ellie | case |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lunch | nmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 aunt | nmod:poss |
| 10 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 baby | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 aunt | case |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 baby | amod |
| 13 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wraps | nsubj |
| 14 | wraps | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hand | nmod:poss |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hand | amod |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wraps | obj |
| 18 | round | round | ADP | _ | 21 finger | case |
| 19 | Ellie | Ellie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 finger | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 Ellie | case |
| 21 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wraps | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 small | punct |
| 23 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 years | nummod |
| 24 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 small | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 24 years | advmod |
| 26 | Ellie | Ellie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 small | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 small | cop |
| 28 | that | that | ADV | _ | 29 small | advmod |
| 29 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wraps | parataxis |
| 30 | too | too | ADV | _ | 29 small | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 small | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 small | cc |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 grown | advmod |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 grown | cop |
| 35 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 up | det |
| 36 | grown | grow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 small | conj |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 up | punct |
| 38 | up | up | ADP | _ | 36 grown | compound |
| 39 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 table | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 table | det |
| 41 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 grown | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | Sunday lunch | Ellie's house | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent lunch=Theme | |||
| 2 | wrap | present | Ellie's aunt's new baby | baby's whole hand | round Ellie's finger | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | Ellie | year | small, that property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a | past | Ellie not said here | grown | the table | tree rules |
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:religion-ethics:051-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up.lesson:1.
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 ×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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