Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days, sentence 2
Special days are often the hardest: on Grandad's birthday Ellie's family eat his favourite cake and tell stories about him, and at Christmas Lily's family set an empty chair for her mum.
Who acts: Special days, family · What happens: be, eat, tell, set · To what, where: favourite cake, birthday, stories, empty chair, Christmas · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Special days, family), 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 | 6 hardest | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hardest | cop |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 hardest | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hardest | det |
| 6 | hardest | hard | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 eat | punct |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 birthday | case |
| 9 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Grandad | case |
| 11 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 eat | obl |
| 12 | Ellie | Ellie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 family | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Ellie | case |
| 14 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 eat | nsubj |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hardest | parataxis |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 cake | nmod:poss |
| 17 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cake | amod |
| 18 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 eat | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 tell | cc |
| 20 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 eat | conj |
| 21 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 tell | obj |
| 22 | about | about | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 stories | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 set | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 set | cc |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 Christmas | case |
| 27 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 set | obl |
| 28 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 family | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 Lily | case |
| 30 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 set | nsubj |
| 31 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 eat | conj |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 chair | det |
| 33 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 chair | amod |
| 34 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 set | obj |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 mum | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 mum | nmod:poss |
| 37 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 set | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hardest | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Special days | hard, often property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | present | Ellie's family | person's favourite cake | Grandad's birthday | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | Ellie's family not said here | stories | about person | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent story=Recipient about he=Topic | |||
| 4 | set | past | Lily's family | a empty chair | Christmas | for love's mum | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chair=Theme at christmas=Destination |
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:2.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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