Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest», sentence 18

In London, Harrison's little brothers break his PlayStation controller and Dad says, «You should've put it away.» «That's peak,» mutters Harrison (London slang for «so unfair, so bad»).

Who acts: little brothers, Dad, You, That, Harrison · What happens: break, say, put away, be, mutter · To what, where: PlayStation controller, London, controller, peak · 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 (little brothers, Dad, You, That), 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 London	case
2	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 break	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 London	punct
4	Harrison	Harrison	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 brothers	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Harrison	case
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 brothers	amod
7	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 break	nsubj
8	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 controller	nmod:poss
10	PlayStation	PlayStation	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 controller	compound
11	controller	controller	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 break	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 says	cc
13	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 says	nsubj
14	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 break	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct
16	«	«	PUNCT	_	20 put	punct
17	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 put	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 put	aux
19	've	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 put	aux
20	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 says	ccomp
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 put	obj
22	away	away	ADV	_	20 put	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 put	punct
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 put	punct
25	«	«	PUNCT	_	28 peak	punct
26	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 peak	nsubj
27	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 peak	cop
28	peak	peak	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 mutters	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 mutters	punct
30	»	»	PUNCT	_	28 peak	punct
31	mutters	mutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 break	conj
32	Harrison	Harrison	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 mutters	nsubj
33	(	(	PUNCT	_	35 slang	punct
34	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 slang	compound
35	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 mutters	parataxis
36	for	for	ADP	_	39 unfair	case
37	«	«	PUNCT	_	39 unfair	punct
38	so	so	ADV	_	39 unfair	advmod
39	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 slang	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 bad	punct
41	so	so	ADV	_	42 bad	advmod
42	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 unfair	conj
43	»	»	PUNCT	_	39 unfair	punct
44	)	)	PUNCT	_	24 »	punct
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 break	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	break	present	Harrison's little brothers	Harrison's PlayStation controller	London		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer controller=Patient
2	say speech: assert	present	Dad				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	put away in a quote	should · perfect	You	controller		away property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
4	is a in a quote	present	That	peak			tree rules
5	mutter speech: assert	present	Harrison				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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:18.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the release 0.4.

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