The church funeral, sentence 15
Children can choose whether to go to a funeral, after a grown-up explains what will happen.
Who acts: Children, grown · What happens: choose, go, explain, happen · To what, where: funeral · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The church funeral» 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 (Children, grown), 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 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 choose | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 choose | aux |
| 3 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 choose | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 funeral | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 funeral | det |
| 9 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 explains | punct |
| 11 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 16 explains | mark |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 up | det |
| 13 | grown | grow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 explains | nsubj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 up | punct |
| 15 | up | up | PART | _ | 13 grown | compound |
| 16 | explains | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 choose | advcl |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 happen | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 happen | aux |
| 19 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 explains | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 choose | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | can | Children | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | Children not said here | a funeral | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to funeral=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | explain speech: assert | present | grown | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | happen | future | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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:062-the-church-funeral.lesson:15.
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 ×2, 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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