Big brothers, sentence 35
Big brothers often tease, but their small praise can mean a lot to a younger sibling.
Who acts: Big brothers, small praise, brothers · What happens: tease, mean, praise · To what, where: lot
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 (Big brothers, small praise, brothers), 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 brothers | amod |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tease | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 tease | advmod |
| 4 | tease | tease | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mean | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 mean | cc |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 praise | nmod:poss |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 praise | amod |
| 9 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mean | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 mean | aux |
| 11 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tease | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 lot | det |
| 13 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mean | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 sibling | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 sibling | det |
| 16 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 sibling | amod |
| 17 | sibling | sibling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mean | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tease | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tease | present | Big brothers | often property | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | mean | can | brothers's small praise | a lot | to a younger sibling | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot lot=Theme to sibling=Attribute | |||
| 3 | praise | brothers = brother | nom praise «communication transitive»: 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:501-big-brothers.lesson:35.
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): no change. 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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