The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff, sentence 39
Teenagers sometimes want to look cool in front of friends; it does not mean they don't love you.
Who acts: Teenagers, it · What happens: want, look, not mean, not love · To what, where: you · 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 (Teenagers, it), 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 | Teenagers | teenager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 want | nsubj |
| 2 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 want | advmod |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 look | mark |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 want | xcomp |
| 6 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 look | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 front | case |
| 8 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 look | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 friends | case |
| 10 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 front | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 mean | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 mean | nsubj |
| 13 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 mean | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 mean | advmod |
| 15 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 want | parataxis |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 love | nsubj |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 love | aux |
| 18 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 love | advmod |
| 19 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 mean | ccomp |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 love | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Teenagers | sometimes property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look not said to happen | to-infinitive | Teenagers not said here | in front of friends; cool property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in front=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not mean | present · do-support | it | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not love | present · do-support | Teenagers = teenager | you | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=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:500-the-big-sister-bossy-protective-borrowing-your-stuff.lesson:39.
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 ×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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