Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps", sentence 9
An age gap never changes, because both people get older at the same speed.
Who acts: age gap, people · What happens: not change, get
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, people), 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 | 5 changes | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 changes | advmod |
| 5 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 get | punct |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 8 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 people | det |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 get | nsubj |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 changes | advcl |
| 11 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 get | xcomp |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 speed | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 speed | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 speed | amod |
| 15 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 older | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 changes | 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 | not change | present | a age gap | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | get | present | both people | old property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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: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): no change. 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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