Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest», sentence 2
«Watch the twins while I nip to the shop,» says Mum.
Who acts: Mum · What happens: watch, nip, say · To what, where: twins, shop · 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 (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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 Watch | punct |
| 2 | Watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 says | ccomp |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 twins | det |
| 4 | twins | twin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Watch | obj |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 nip | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 nip | nsubj |
| 7 | nip | nip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Watch | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 shop | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shop | det |
| 10 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nip | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 says | punct |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 says | punct |
| 13 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Mum | Mum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 says | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch in a quote | infinitive | the twins | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twin=Theme | |||||
| 2 | nip in a quote | present | Mum | the shop | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shop=Destination | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | Mum | vn say-37.7-1-1 «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:2.
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 ×2, R6-punct-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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