Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest», sentence 27
When something goes wrong, small things you can fix; big things need a grown-up.
Who acts: something, you, big things · What happens: go, fix, need, grow · To what, where: small things, up
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 (something, you, big things), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 goes | mark |
| 2 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 need | advcl |
| 4 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 goes | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 things | amod |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 need | conj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 fix | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 fix | aux |
| 10 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 things | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 need | punct |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 things | amod |
| 13 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 need | nsubj |
| 14 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 up | det |
| 16 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 a | acl |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 up | punct |
| 18 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 need | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 need | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | something | wrong property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fix | can | you | small things not said here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | need | present | big things | a up | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot up=Theme | ||||
| 4 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:27.
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, 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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