Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days, sentence 3
Grief can also jump out of nowhere: six months after Grandma died, Mia smells Grandma's perfume on a lady in a shop and starts crying; this is called a grief trigger, and it is normal.
Who acts: Grief, Grandma, Mia · What happens: jump out, die, smell, start, cry, call · To what, where: perfume, this · 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 (Grief, Grandma, Mia), 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 | Grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jump | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 jump | aux |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 jump | advmod |
| 4 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 nowhere | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 nowhere | case |
| 7 | nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 jump | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 died | punct |
| 9 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 months | nummod |
| 10 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 died | obl |
| 11 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 13 died | mark |
| 12 | Grandma | Grandma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 died | nsubj |
| 13 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 smells | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 smells | punct |
| 15 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 smells | nsubj |
| 16 | smells | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 jump | parataxis |
| 17 | Grandma | Grandma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 perfume | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Grandma | case |
| 19 | perfume | perfume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 smells | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 lady | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 lady | det |
| 22 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 smells | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 shop | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 shop | det |
| 25 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lady | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 starts | cc |
| 27 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 smells | conj |
| 28 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 starts | xcomp |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 called | punct |
| 30 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 called | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 called | aux:pass |
| 32 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 jump | advcl |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 trigger | det |
| 34 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 trigger | compound |
| 35 | trigger | trigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 called | xcomp |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 normal | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 normal | cc |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 normal | nsubj |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 normal | cop |
| 40 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 called | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 jump | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump out | can | Grief | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nowhere=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | die | past | Grandma | month | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | smell | present | Mia | Grandma's perfume | on a lady in a shop | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent perfume=Theme on lady=Location | |||
| 4 | start | present | Mia not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | gerund | Mia not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | call | present · passive | this | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 7 | is | present | Grief | normal property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | perfume | Grandma | nom perfume «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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:3.
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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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