Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days, sentence 7
Many families mark a loved one's birthday by doing something that person loved, like eating their favourite cake.
Who acts: Many families, birthday, person · What happens: mark, love, do, eat · To what, where: birthday, something, favourite cake
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 families, birthday, person), 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 families | amod |
| 2 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 mark | nsubj |
| 3 | mark | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 one | det |
| 5 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 one | amod |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 one | case |
| 8 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mark | obj |
| 9 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 10 doing | mark |
| 10 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 birthday | acl |
| 11 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 doing | obj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 loved | obj |
| 13 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 loved | nsubj |
| 14 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 something | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 eating | punct |
| 16 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 17 eating | mark |
| 17 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 loved | advcl |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 cake | nmod:poss |
| 19 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cake | amod |
| 20 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 eating | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mark | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | present | Many families | a loved one's birthday | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent birthday=Destination | ||||
| 2 | love | participle | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | do | gerund | a loved one's birthday not said here | something | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | love | past | person | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | eat | gerund | person not said here | families's favourite cake | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient |
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:7.
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 ×1, 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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