When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do, sentence 9
Special days like Mother's Day and Father's Day can be very hard for a child whose parent has died.
Who acts: Special days, parent · What happens: be, die
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 (Special days, parent), 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 | Special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 days | amod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hard | nsubj |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 Day | case |
| 4 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Day | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Mother | case |
| 6 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 days | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Father | cc |
| 8 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Day | conj |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Father | case |
| 10 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Father | flat |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 hard | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hard | cop |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 hard | advmod |
| 14 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 child | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 child | det |
| 17 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hard | obl |
| 18 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 19 parent | nmod:poss |
| 19 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 died | nsubj |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 died | aux |
| 21 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 child | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can | Special days like Mother's Day and Father | for a child; hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | die | present · perfect | parent | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:9.
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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