Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps", sentence 17
An age gap between two people never changes: if Ruby is 9 and her brother 6, the gap is always 3 years.
Who acts: age gap, Ruby, gap · What happens: not change, be · To what, where: 9, 3 years
This is a sentence of the lesson «Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps"» of the world 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 (age gap, Ruby, gap), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 gap | det |
| 2 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gap | compound |
| 3 | gap | gap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 changes | nsubj |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 6 people | case |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 people | nummod |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gap | nmod |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 changes | advmod |
| 8 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 changes | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 9 | mark |
| 11 | Ruby | Ruby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 9 | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 9 | cop |
| 13 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 changes | advcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 brother | cc |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 brother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 9 | conj |
| 17 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 9 | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 years | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 gap | det |
| 20 | gap | gap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 years | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 years | cop |
| 22 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 23 3 | advmod |
| 23 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 years | nummod |
| 24 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 changes | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 changes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not change | present | a age gap between two people | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | Ruby | 9 and Ruby's brother | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the gap | 3 years | tree rules |
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:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps.lesson:17.
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): R6-punct-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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