When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do, sentence 12
Sports teams often wear black armbands or hold a minute's silence or applause to show respect and support.
Who acts: Sports teams, minute · What happens: wear, hold, show, silence · To what, where: black armbands, silence, respect
This is a sentence of the lesson «When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do» 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 (Sports teams, minute), 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 | Sports | sport | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 teams | compound |
| 2 | teams | team | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wear | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 wear | advmod |
| 4 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 armbands | amod |
| 6 | armbands | armband | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wear | obj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 hold | cc |
| 8 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wear | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 minute | det |
| 10 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 silence | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 minute | case |
| 12 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hold | obj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 applause | cc |
| 14 | applause | applause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 silence | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 show | mark |
| 16 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hold | advcl |
| 17 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 show | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 support | cc |
| 19 | support | support | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 respect | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wear | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | present | Sports teams | black armbands | often property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent armband=Source | |||
| 2 | hold | present | Sports teams not said here | a minute's silence or applause | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silence=Theme | ||||
| 3 | show | to-infinitive | Sports teams not said here | respect and support | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent respect=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | silence | a minute | nom silence «state 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:061-when-a-friends-mum-or-dad-dies-what-to-say-and-do.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): 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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