«It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other, sentence 34

Tricking a younger sibling is easy, which is exactly why it is unfair; big kids should protect little ones.

Who acts: Tricking, big kids · What happens: trick, be, protect · To what, where: younger sibling, little ones

This is a sentence of the lesson ««It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other» of the everyday 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 (Tricking, big kids), 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	Tricking	trick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 easy	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sibling	det
3	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 sibling	amod
4	sibling	sibling	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tricking	obj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 easy	cop
6	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 unfair	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 unfair	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 unfair	cop
10	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	11 why	advmod
11	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 unfair	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 unfair	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 unfair	cop
14	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 easy	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 protect	punct
16	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 kids	amod
17	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 protect	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 protect	aux
19	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 easy	parataxis
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 ones	amod
21	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 protect	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 easy	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	trick	gerund		a younger sibling		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sibling=Patient
2	is	present	Tricking		easy property	tree rules
3	is	present			unfair property	tree rules
4	protect	should	big kids	little ones		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Beneficiary

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:everyday:432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other.lesson:34.

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, R7-rel-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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