Life begins: being born and growing up, sentence 4
A new brother or sister does not use up a family's love: love is not a cake cut into smaller slices, it grows to cover everyone, even when the baby takes up a lot of time.
Who acts: new brother, love, baby, family · What happens: not use up, not be, cut, grow, cover, take up · To what, where: love, cake, everyone, lot
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 (new brother, love, baby, family), 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 | 3 brother | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 use | nsubj |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 sister | cc |
| 5 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brother | conj |
| 6 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 use | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 use | advmod |
| 8 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 use | compound:prt |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 family | det |
| 11 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 love | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 family | case |
| 13 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 use | obj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 cake | punct |
| 15 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cake | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 cake | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 cake | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cake | det |
| 19 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 love | appos |
| 20 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 cake | acl |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 slices | case |
| 22 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 slices | amod |
| 23 | slices | slice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 cut | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 grows | punct |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 grows | nsubj |
| 26 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 use | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 cover | mark |
| 28 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 grows | xcomp |
| 29 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 28 cover | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 takes | punct |
| 31 | even | even | ADV | _ | 35 takes | advmod |
| 32 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 takes | advmod |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 baby | det |
| 34 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 takes | nsubj |
| 35 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 cover | conj |
| 36 | up | up | ADP | _ | 35 takes | compound:prt |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 lot | det |
| 38 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 takes | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 time | case |
| 40 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 lot | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 use | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not use up | present · do-support | a new brother or sister | a family's love | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not is a | present | love | a cake | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cut | participle | a cake not said here | into smaller slices | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into slice=Patient | ||||
| 4 | grow | present | love | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | cover | to-infinitive | love not said here | everyone | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme everyone=Destination | ||||
| 6 | take up | present | the baby | a lot of time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme | ||||
| 7 | love | a family | nom love «feeling 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:religion-ethics:051-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up.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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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