Life begins: being born and growing up, sentence 14
A birthday marks the day a person was born; some groups, such as Jehovah's Witnesses, choose not to celebrate birthdays, and that choice is respected.
Who acts: birthday, day, groups · What happens: mark, bear, choose, not celebrate, respected · To what, where: person, birthdays, choice
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 (birthday, day, groups), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 birthday | det |
| 2 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 marks | nsubj |
| 3 | marks | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 marks | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 person | det |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 born | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 born | aux:pass |
| 9 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 day | acl:relcl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 marks | punct |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 groups | det |
| 12 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 choose | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Witnesses | punct |
| 14 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 18 Witnesses | case |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 such | fixed |
| 16 | Jehovah | Jehovah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Witnesses | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Jehovah | case |
| 18 | Witnesses | witness | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 groups | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 choose | punct |
| 20 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 marks | parataxis |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 celebrate | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 celebrate | mark |
| 23 | celebrate | celebrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 choose | xcomp |
| 24 | birthdays | birthday | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 celebrate | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 respected | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 respected | cc |
| 27 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 choice | det |
| 28 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 respected | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 respected | aux:pass |
| 30 | respected | respected | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 choose | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 marks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | present | a birthday | day | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bear | past · passive | the day not said here | a person | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | choose | infinitive | some groups such Jehovah's Witnesses | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not celebrate | to-infinitive | some groups such Jehovah's Witnesses not said here | birthdays | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birthday=Theme | ||||
| 5 | respected | present · passive | that choice | 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:14.
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): 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.
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