Big brothers, sentence 43
Copying something rude a brother taught you still gets you in trouble; «my brother said it» is no excuse.
Who acts: brother, Copying · What happens: copy, teach, get, say, be · To what, where: something, you, trouble, excuse · 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 (brother, Copying), 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 | Copying | copy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 gets | csubj |
| 2 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Copying | obj |
| 3 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 something | amod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 brother | det |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taught | nsubj |
| 6 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 something | acl:relcl |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 taught | obj |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 gets | advmod |
| 9 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 excuse | parataxis |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 gets | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 trouble | case |
| 12 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gets | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 excuse | punct |
| 14 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 brother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 excuse | csubj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | obj |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 excuse | cop |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 excuse | det |
| 22 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | copy | gerund | something | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | |||||
| 2 | teach speech: other | past | a brother | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | get | present | Copying | you | trouble | still | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | my brother | trouble | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | no excuse | tree rules |
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:43.
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 ×1, 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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