The older kid's «trade», sentence 3

Older kids sometimes use their size and confidence on younger ones: a deal that looks generous, said fast, by someone bigger than you, with no time to check.

Who acts: Older kids, deal · What happens: use, look, say, check · To what, where: size, deal · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The older kid's «trade»» 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 (Older kids, deal), 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	Older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 kids	amod
2	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 use	nsubj
3	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 use	advmod
4	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 size	nmod:poss
6	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 use	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 confidence	cc
8	confidence	confidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 size	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 ones	case
10	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 ones	amod
11	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 use	obl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 deal	det
14	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ones	appos
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 looks	nsubj
16	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 deal	acl:relcl
17	generous	generous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 looks	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 looks	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 deal	acl
20	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 said	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 someone	punct
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 someone	case
23	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 said	obl:agent
24	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 someone	amod
25	than	than	ADP	_	26 you	case
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 bigger	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 time	punct
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 time	case
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 time	det
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	obl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 check	mark
32	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 time	acl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 use	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	Older kids	trade's size and confidence		on younger ones; sometimes property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent size=Patient
2	look	present	a deal			generous property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	participle		a deal not said here	time	fast property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	check	to-infinitive					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:445-the-older-kids-trade.lesson:3.

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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