Sounds right, but is wrong, sentence 19

The gap between two people's ages stays the same: when a 5-year-old reaches 10, his brother who is 5 years older is 15.

Who acts: gap, year old, brother · What happens: stay, reach, be · To what, where: same, 10, 15

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sounds right, but is wrong» 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 (gap, year old, brother), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gap	det
2	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stays	nsubj
3	between	between	ADP	_	7 ages	case
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 people	nummod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ages	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 people	case
7	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gap	nmod
8	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 same	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stays	obj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 when	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 reaches	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 old	det
14	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 year	nummod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 5	punct
16	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 old	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 year	punct
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 reaches	nsubj
19	reaches	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 stays	advcl
20	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 reaches	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 15	punct
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 brother	nmod:poss
23	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 15	nsubj
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 older	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 older	cop
26	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 years	nummod
27	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 older	obl:unmarked
28	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 brother	acl:relcl
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 15	cop
30	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 stays	parataxis
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 stays	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	the gap between two people's ages	the same			vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme same=Location
2	reach	present	a year old	10			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent 10=Theme
3	is	present	weight's brother		year	old property	tree rules
4	is a	present	weight's brother	15			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:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong.lesson:19.

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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