When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do, sentence 7
A small gift like a card, a drawing or a favourite snack shows you care; big presents are not needed.
Who acts: small gift, you · What happens: show, care, not need · To what, where: big presents · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (small gift, you), 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 gift | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gift | amod |
| 3 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shows | nsubj |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 card | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 card | det |
| 6 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gift | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 drawing | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 drawing | det |
| 9 | drawing | drawing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 card | conj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 snack | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 snack | det |
| 12 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 snack | amod |
| 13 | snack | snack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drawing | conj |
| 14 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 care | nsubj |
| 16 | care | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 shows | ccomp |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 needed | punct |
| 18 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 presents | amod |
| 19 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 needed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 needed | aux:pass |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 needed | advmod |
| 22 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 shows | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a small gift like a card and a drawing or a favourite snack | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | care | present | you | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | not need | present · passive | big presents | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme |
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:7.
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, 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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