Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest», sentence 17

Mom says, «They're little, let it go.» Aaliyah yells, «It's always my fault or my problem!» A lock box or a high shelf is a fair ask.

Who acts: Mom, sisters, collection, Aaliyah, lock box · What happens: say, be, let, go, yell · To what, where: collection, fault, fair ask · 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 (Mom, sisters, collection, Aaliyah), 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	Mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
5	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 little	nsubj
6	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 little	cop
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 let	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 little	punct
9	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 let	obj
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
14	Aaliyah	Aaliyah	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 yells	nsubj
15	yells	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fault	punct
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	22 fault	punct
18	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fault	nsubj
19	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 fault	cop
20	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	22 fault	advmod
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 fault	nmod:poss
22	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 yells	ccomp
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 problem	cc
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 problem	nmod:poss
25	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fault	conj
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	22 fault	punct
27	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
28	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 box	det
29	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 box	compound
30	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 ask	nsubj
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 shelf	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 shelf	det
33	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 shelf	amod
34	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 box	conj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 ask	cop
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 ask	det
37	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 ask	amod
38	ask	ask	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	parataxis
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mom			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	sisters = sister		little property	tree rules
3	let in a quote	infinitive		collection		tree rules
4	go in a quote	infinitive	collection not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	yell speech: express	present	Aaliyah			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a in a quote	present	collection	my fault or my problem	always property	tree rules
7	is a	present	a lock box or a high shelf	a fair ask		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:502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest.lesson:17.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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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