The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff, sentence 3

Brush your hair, you look like a scarecrow.» Then at the school gate a Year 6 boy pushes Cerys, and Megan-Lee is there in two seconds: «Touch my sister again and see what happens, butt» («butt» is South Wales for «mate»).

Who acts: you, Year 6 boy, Megan Lee, butt · What happens: brush, look, push, be, touch, see · To what, where: hair, school gate, sister, South Wales · 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 (you, Year 6 boy, Megan Lee, butt), 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	Brush	brush	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hair	nmod:poss
3	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Brush	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 look	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 look	nsubj
6	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Brush	parataxis
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 scarecrow	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 scarecrow	det
9	scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 look	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Brush	punct
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 Brush	punct
12	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 pushes	advmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 school	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gate	det
15	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gate	compound
16	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pushes	obl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 boy	det
18	Year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 boy	compound
19	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 boy	nummod
20	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pushes	nsubj
21	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Brush	parataxis
22	Cerys	Cerys	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 pushes	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 there	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 there	cc
25	Megan	Megan	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Lee	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 Megan	punct
27	Lee	Lee	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 there	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 there	cop
29	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Brush	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 seconds	case
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 seconds	nummod
32	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 there	obl
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 «	punct
34	«	«	PUNCT	_	35 Touch	punct
35	Touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Brush	parataxis
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 sister	nmod:poss
37	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 Touch	obj
38	again	again	ADV	_	35 Touch	advmod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 see	cc
40	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	35 Touch	conj
41	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	42 happens	nsubj
42	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 see	ccomp
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 happens	punct
44	butt	butt	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 »	vocative
45	»	»	PUNCT	_	35 Touch	punct
46	(	(	PUNCT	_	52 Wales	punct
47	«	«	PUNCT	_	48 butt	punct
48	butt	butt	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 Wales	nsubj
49	»	»	PUNCT	_	48 butt	punct
50	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 Wales	cop
51	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 Wales	compound
52	Wales	Wales	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Brush	parataxis
53	for	for	ADP	_	55 mate	case
54	«	«	PUNCT	_	55 mate	punct
55	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 Wales	nmod
56	»	»	PUNCT	_	55 mate	punct
57	)	)	PUNCT	_	52 Wales	punct
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Brush	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: warn
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=warn

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	brush	imperative	you not said here	your hair			tree rules
2	look	present	you			like a scarecrow	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	push in a quote	present	a Year 6 boy	the school gate	then		vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cerys=Theme
4	is in a quote	present	Megan Lee		second	there property	tree rules
5	touch	infinitive		my sister	again		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sister=Co-Theme
6	see	infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	happen	present					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is a in a quote	present	butt	South Wales		for mate	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: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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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