Big brothers, sentence 18
Jaxon asks, «What's up with him, eh?» Mom says, «Teenager, bud.» Going quiet is common and usually passes, but if a brother seems really sad for a long time, tell a parent.
Who acts: Jaxon, Mom, Going, brother, parent · What happens: ask, be, say, go, pass, seem · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Big brothers» 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 (Jaxon, Mom, Going, brother), 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 | Jaxon | Jaxon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | nsubj |
| 2 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 What | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
| 5 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 up | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 up | cop |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 2 asks | parataxis |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 up | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 up | punct |
| 11 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 7 up | discourse |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
| 14 | Mom | mom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 says | nsubj |
| 15 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 asks | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 says | punct |
| 17 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 18 Teenager | punct |
| 18 | Teenager | teenager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 says | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bud | punct |
| 20 | bud | bud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Teenager | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 Teenager | punct |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 18 Teenager | punct |
| 23 | Going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 common | csubj |
| 24 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Going | xcomp |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 common | cop |
| 26 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 asks | parataxis |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 passes | cc |
| 28 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 29 passes | advmod |
| 29 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 common | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 tell | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 43 tell | cc |
| 32 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 35 seems | mark |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 brother | det |
| 34 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 seems | nsubj |
| 35 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 tell | advcl |
| 36 | really | really | ADV | _ | 37 sad | advmod |
| 37 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 seems | xcomp |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 time | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 time | det |
| 40 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 time | amod |
| 41 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 seems | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 seems | punct |
| 43 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 common | conj |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 parent | det |
| 45 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 tell | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Jaxon | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | with Jaxon; up property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | Mom | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go | gerund | quiet property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | present | Going | common property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | pass | present | Going not said here | usually property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | seem a condition, not said to happen | present | a brother | time | sad property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||
| 8 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | a parent | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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:501-big-brothers.lesson:18.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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