The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff, sentence 41
A treat from a sibling is a gift, not a rule; say thanks, and don't sulk when it can't happen.
Who acts: treat, it · What happens: be, say, not sulk, not happen · To what, where: gift, thanks · 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 (treat, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 treat | det |
| 2 | treat | treat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gift | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 sibling | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sibling | det |
| 5 | sibling | sibling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 treat | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 gift | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 gift | det |
| 8 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rule | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 rule | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 rule | det |
| 12 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gift | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 say | punct |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 gift | parataxis |
| 15 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 say | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sulk | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sulk | cc |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 sulk | aux |
| 19 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 sulk | advmod |
| 20 | sulk | sulk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 say | conj |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 happen | advmod |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 happen | nsubj |
| 23 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 happen | aux |
| 24 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 happen | advmod |
| 25 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 sulk | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gift | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a treat from a sibling | a gift and a rule | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | thanks | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not sulk | infinitive · do-support | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | not happen | can | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:41.
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): 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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