Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest», sentence 20
In Leicester, every time there's a fight Aarav hears, «You're the oldest, you should know better.» Fairness means everyone takes their share: «Can we each say what happened?»
Who acts: Aarav, You, Fairness, everyone, we, sisters · What happens: hear, be, know, mean, take, say · To what, where: fight, share · 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 (Aarav, You, Fairness, everyone), 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 Leicester | case |
| 2 | Leicester | Leicester | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 's | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leicester | punct |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 's | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 's | expl |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 means | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fight | det |
| 9 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 's | nsubj |
| 10 | Aarav | Aarav | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 hears | nsubj |
| 11 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 fight | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
| 14 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 oldest | nsubj |
| 15 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 oldest | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 oldest | det |
| 17 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 know | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 oldest | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 know | nsubj |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 know | aux |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 's | conj |
| 22 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 know | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 's | punct |
| 24 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 26 means | punct |
| 25 | Fairness | fairness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 means | nsubj |
| 26 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 28 takes | nsubj |
| 28 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 means | ccomp |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 share | nmod:poss |
| 30 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 takes | obj |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 36 say | punct |
| 32 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 36 say | punct |
| 33 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 say | aux |
| 34 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 say | nsubj |
| 35 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 say | advmod |
| 36 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 means | conj |
| 37 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 38 happened | nsubj |
| 38 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 say | ccomp |
| 39 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 38 happened | punct |
| 40 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 26 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | Aarav | a fight not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer fight=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | You | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know in a quote | should | you | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | Fairness | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | take | present | everyone | sisters's share | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Theme | ||||
| 6 | say speech: ask in a quote | can | we | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | happen in a quote | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | share | sisters = sister | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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:20.
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): 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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