The only child: all the attention and wanting a sibling, sentence 18
In Perth, Australia, Lachlan's mate says, «Mate, you're spoilt rotten, you've got every console.» Lachlan is stung, then gives his old Switch to a cousin who hasn't got one.
Who acts: mate, you, cousin · What happens: say, be, get, sting, give, not get · To what, where: Perth, console, Lachlan, old Switch, cousin, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The only child: all the attention and wanting a sibling» 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 (mate, you, cousin), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Perth | case |
| 2 | Perth | Perth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 says | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Australia | punct |
| 4 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Perth | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Perth | punct |
| 6 | Lachlan | Lachlan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 mate | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Lachlan | case |
| 8 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | nsubj |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 17 rotten | punct |
| 12 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rotten | vocative |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rotten | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 rotten | nsubj |
| 15 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 rotten | cop |
| 16 | spoilt | spoilt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 rotten | amod |
| 17 | rotten | rotten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 says | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 got | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 got | nsubj |
| 20 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 got | aux |
| 21 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 rotten | conj |
| 22 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 console | det |
| 23 | console | console | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 got | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 rotten | punct |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 26 | Lachlan | Lachlan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 stung | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 stung | aux:pass |
| 28 | stung | sting | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 says | ccomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 gives | punct |
| 30 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 gives | advmod |
| 31 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 stung | conj |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 Switch | nmod:poss |
| 33 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Switch | amod |
| 34 | Switch | switch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 gives | obj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 cousin | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 cousin | det |
| 37 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 gives | obl |
| 38 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 got | nsubj |
| 39 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 got | aux |
| 40 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 got | advmod |
| 41 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 cousin | acl:relcl |
| 42 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 got | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Lachlan's mate | Perth and Australia | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | Mate vocative; rotten property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | present · perfect | you | every console | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer console=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | sting | present · passive | Lachlan | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | give | present | mate's old Switch | a cousin | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent switch=Theme to cousin=Recipient | |||
| 6 | not get | present · perfect | a cousin | one | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
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:499-the-only-child-all-the-attention-and-wanting-a-sibling.lesson:18.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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