The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff, sentence 11
In Edinburgh, it goes the other way: Morven, 16, borrows Iona's glittery hair clips for a party: «Ah, they're braw, cheers, wee yin» («braw» = lovely, «wee yin» = little one).
Who acts: cap, Morven, clips · What happens: go, borrow, be · To what, where: other way, Edinburgh, glittery hair clips, wee yin » · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff» 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 (cap, Morven, clips), 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 Edinburgh | case |
| 2 | Edinburgh | Edinburgh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 goes | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Edinburgh | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 goes | nsubj |
| 5 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 way | amod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 goes | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Morven | punct |
| 10 | Morven | Morven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 borrows | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 16 | punct |
| 12 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 Morven | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 borrows | punct |
| 14 | borrows | borrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 goes | parataxis |
| 15 | Iona | Iona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 clips | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Iona | case |
| 17 | glittery | glittery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 clips | amod |
| 18 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 clips | compound |
| 19 | clips | clip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 borrows | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 party | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 party | det |
| 22 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 borrows | obl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 braw | punct |
| 24 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 29 braw | punct |
| 25 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 29 braw | discourse |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 braw | punct |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 braw | nsubj |
| 28 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 braw | cop |
| 29 | braw | braw | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 goes | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 cheers | punct |
| 31 | cheers | cheer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 braw | appos |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 » | punct |
| 33 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 » | amod |
| 34 | yin | yin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 » | compound |
| 35 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cheers | conj |
| 36 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 39 » | punct |
| 37 | « | « | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 » | det |
| 38 | braw | braw | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 » | amod |
| 39 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 » | appos |
| 40 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 31 cheers | punct |
| 41 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 braw | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 » | punct |
| 43 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 46 » | punct |
| 44 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 » | amod |
| 45 | yin | yin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 » | compound |
| 46 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 lovely | obl |
| 47 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 49 one | punct |
| 48 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 one | amod |
| 49 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 » | conj |
| 50 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 46 » | punct |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | cap | the other way | Edinburgh | tree rules | |||
| 2 | borrow | present | Morven | Iona's glittery hair clips | for a party | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clip=Theme | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | clips = clip | braw property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | clips = clip not said here | wee yin » and little one | 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:everyday:500-the-big-sister-bossy-protective-borrowing-your-stuff.lesson:11.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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