Getting old: how long people and animals live, sentence 1
Picture Charlie's great-grandmother at her 100th birthday, a card from the King on the mantelpiece: once she was nine, skipping in a garden with her friends, and that child is still part of her.
Who acts: you, skin, child · What happens: picture, be, skip · To what, where: great grandmother, 100th birthday, nine, garden, part
This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting old: how long people and animals live» 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, skin, child), 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 | Charlie | Charlie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Charlie | case |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 grandmother | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 great | punct |
| 6 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 birthday | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 100th | 100th | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 birthday | amod |
| 10 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 card | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 card | det |
| 13 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grandmother | appos |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 King | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 card | nmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 mantelpiece | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mantelpiece | det |
| 19 | mantelpiece | mantelpiece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 King | nmod |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
| 21 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 24 nine | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 nine | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 nine | cop |
| 24 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 skipping | punct |
| 26 | skipping | skip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 nine | advcl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 garden | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 garden | det |
| 29 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 skipping | obl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 friends | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 friends | nmod:poss |
| 32 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 garden | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 part | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 part | cc |
| 35 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 child | det |
| 36 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 part | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 part | cop |
| 38 | still | still | ADV | _ | 39 part | advmod |
| 39 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 nine | conj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 her | case |
| 41 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 part | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | Charlie's great grandmother | Charlie's 100th birthday | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent grandmother=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | skin | nine and part | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | skip | gerund | skin not said here | a garden with skin's friends | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | that child | part | still | of skin | 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:052-getting-old-how-long-people-and-animals-live.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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