Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest», sentence 14
Missing out can be unfair: tell your mam it matters, so someone else might mind them next time.
Who acts: Missing, it, someone · What happens: miss out, be, tell, matter, mind · To what, where: mam, boys · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Missing, it, someone), 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 | Missing | miss | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 unfair | csubj |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 Missing | compound:prt |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 unfair | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 unfair | cop |
| 5 | unfair | unfair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 unfair | parataxis |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mam | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mam | mam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tell | iobj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 matters | nsubj |
| 11 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 tell | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 mind | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 mind | advmod |
| 14 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 mind | nsubj |
| 15 | else | else | ADV | _ | 14 someone | advmod |
| 16 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 mind | aux |
| 17 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tell | ccomp |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 mind | obj |
| 19 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mind | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 unfair | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss out | gerund | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is | can | Missing | unfair property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | your mam | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mam=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | matter | present | it | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | mind | might | someone | boys = boy | time | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest.lesson:14.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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