The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff, sentence 21

In Dublin, Clodagh, 17, lets Saoirse play on her phone, and a message pops up from someone Saoirse doesn't know: «u still sneaking out tonite?» Clodagh grabs the phone: «Not a word to Mam, right?» Small secrets, like a surprise present, you can keep.

Who acts: Clodagh, Saoirse, message, u, you · What happens: let, play, pop up, not know, sneak out, grab · To what, where: Dublin, phone, someone, tonite · 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 (Clodagh, Saoirse, message, u), 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 Dublin	case
2	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 lets	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Clodagh	punct
4	Clodagh	Clodagh	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 lets	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 17	punct
6	17	17	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 Clodagh	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Clodagh	punct
8	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Saoirse	Saoirse	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 play	nsubj
10	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 lets	xcomp
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 phone	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 phone	nmod:poss
13	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 play	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pops	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 pops	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 message	det
17	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pops	nsubj
18	pops	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lets	conj
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 pops	compound:prt
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 someone	case
21	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 pops	obl
22	Saoirse	saoirse	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 know	nsubj
23	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 know	aux
24	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 know	advmod
25	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 someone	acl:relcl
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 sneaking	punct
27	«	«	PUNCT	_	30 sneaking	punct
28	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 sneaking	nsubj
29	still	still	ADV	_	30 sneaking	advmod
30	sneaking	sneak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 pops	parataxis
31	out	out	ADP	_	30 sneaking	compound:prt
32	tonite	tonite	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sneaking	obj
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	30 sneaking	punct
34	»	»	PUNCT	_	36 grabs	punct
35	Clodagh	Clodagh	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 grabs	nsubj
36	grabs	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lets	parataxis
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 phone	det
38	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 grabs	obj
39	:	:	PUNCT	_	43 word	punct
40	«	«	PUNCT	_	43 word	punct
41	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 word	advmod
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 word	det
43	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 grabs	parataxis
44	to	to	ADP	_	45 Mam	case
45	Mam	mam	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 word	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 word	punct
47	right	right	INTJ	_	43 word	discourse
48	?	?	PUNCT	_	43 word	punct
49	»	»	PUNCT	_	43 word	punct
50	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 secrets	amod
51	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 keep	dislocated
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 present	punct
53	like	like	ADP	_	56 present	case
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 present	det
55	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 present	compound
56	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 secrets	nmod
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 secrets	punct
58	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	60 keep	nsubj
59	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 keep	aux
60	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 lets	parataxis
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	60 keep	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: suggest
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	present	Clodagh		Dublin			tree rules
2	play	infinitive	Saoirse		Saoirse's phone			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pop up	present	a message		someone			tree rules
4	not know	present · do-support	Saoirse					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	sneak out in a quote	gerund	u	tonite		still		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tonite=Agent
6	grab	present	Clodagh	the phone				tree rules
7	keep	can	you				Small secrets like a surprise present dislocated	vn keep-15.2 «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:500-the-big-sister-bossy-protective-borrowing-your-stuff.lesson:21.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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