Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days, sentence 9
Some families set an empty chair or light a candle at a festival to remember the person.
Who acts: families · What happens: set, light, remember · To what, where: empty chair, candle, festival, 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 (families), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 families | det |
| 2 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 chair | det |
| 5 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chair | amod |
| 6 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 light | cc |
| 8 | light | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 candle | det |
| 10 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 light | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 festival | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 festival | det |
| 13 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 light | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 remember | mark |
| 15 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 light | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 person | det |
| 17 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 remember | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | some families | a empty chair | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient chair=Result | ||||
| 2 | light | present | some families not said here | a candle | a festival | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=Product | |||
| 3 | remember | to-infinitive | some families not said here | the person | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent person=Theme |
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:9.
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 ×2, 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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