Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days, sentence 14
Many Christians and others plant trees or flowers in memory of loved ones.
Who acts: Many Christians · What happens: plant, love · To what, where: trees, memory
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 (Many Christians), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Christians | amod |
| 2 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 plant | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 plant | cc |
| 4 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Christians | conj |
| 5 | plant | plant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 plant | obj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 flowers | cc |
| 8 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 trees | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 memory | case |
| 10 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plant | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 ones | case |
| 12 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 ones | amod |
| 13 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 memory | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 plant | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plant | present | Many Christians and others | trees or flowers | memory of loved ones | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Theme in memory=Destination | |||
| 2 | love | participle | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
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:14.
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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