The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff, sentence 31
Big sisters who do a parent's jobs need help too: make her a tea, and tell Dad or a teacher if she seems really down.
Who acts: Big sisters, parent · What happens: do, need, make, tell, seem, job · To what, where: jobs, help, tea, parent, Dad · 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 (Big sisters, parent), 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 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sisters | amod |
| 2 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 need | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sisters | acl:relcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 parent | det |
| 6 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 jobs | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 parent | case |
| 8 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 do | obj |
| 9 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 need | obj |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 need | advmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 need | parataxis |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 make | iobj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tea | det |
| 16 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tell | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 tell | cc |
| 19 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 make | conj |
| 20 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tell | obj |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 teacher | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 teacher | det |
| 23 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Dad | conj |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 seems | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 seems | nsubj |
| 26 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 tell | advcl |
| 27 | really | really | ADV | _ | 28 down | advmod |
| 28 | down | down | ADV | _ | 26 seems | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 need | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | Big sisters | a parent's jobs | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | need | present | Big sisters | help | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | a tea | parent | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary tea=Product | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | Dad or a teacher | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | seem a condition, not said to happen | present | parent | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | job | a parent | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=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:31.
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. 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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