Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest», sentence 1
In Birmingham, Ifeoma, 10, is the oldest of five; Mum and Dad run a small shop.
Who acts: Ifeoma, Mum · What happens: be, run · To what, where: Birmingham, small shop
This is a sentence of the lesson «Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest»» 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 (Ifeoma, Mum), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Birmingham | case |
| 2 | Birmingham | Birmingham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 oldest | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ifeoma | punct |
| 4 | Ifeoma | Ifeoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 oldest | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 10 | punct |
| 6 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Ifeoma | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Birmingham | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 oldest | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 oldest | det |
| 10 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 run | parataxis |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 five | case |
| 12 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 oldest | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 Mum | punct |
| 14 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 run | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Dad | cc |
| 16 | Dad | Dad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Mum | conj |
| 17 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 shop | det |
| 19 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 shop | amod |
| 20 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 run | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 oldest | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Ifeoma | Birmingham | of five; old property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | run | present | Mum and Dad | a small shop | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shop=Trajectory |
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:502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest.lesson:1.
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. 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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