Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days, sentence 1
Ellie and her mum make a memory box for Grandad: his glasses, a photo, the wrapper from his favourite sweets and a postcard, and she can open it whenever she misses him.
Who acts: Ellie, love · What happens: make, open, miss · To what, where: memory box, box, person
This is a sentence of the lesson «Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days» 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 (Ellie, love), 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 | Ellie | Ellie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 make | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 mum | cc |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 mum | nmod:poss |
| 4 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ellie | conj |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 box | det |
| 7 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 box | compound |
| 8 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 Grandad | case |
| 10 | Grandad | grandad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 box | nmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 glasses | punct |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 glasses | nmod:poss |
| 13 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Grandad | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 photo | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 photo | det |
| 16 | photo | photo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 glasses | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wrapper | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wrapper | det |
| 19 | wrapper | wrapper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 glasses | conj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 sweets | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 sweets | nmod:poss |
| 22 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sweets | amod |
| 23 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 wrapper | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 postcard | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 postcard | det |
| 26 | postcard | postcard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wrapper | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 open | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 open | cc |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 open | nsubj |
| 30 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 open | aux |
| 31 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 make | conj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 open | obj |
| 33 | whenever | whenever | SCONJ | _ | 35 misses | mark |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 misses | nsubj |
| 35 | misses | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 open | advcl |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 misses | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Ellie and love's mum | a memory box | for Grandad and person's glasses and a photo and the wrapper from person's favourite sweets and a postcard | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent box=Material for grandad=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | open | can | love | box | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | miss | present | love | person | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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:068-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days.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): 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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