Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest», sentence 32
In Leeds, Tomasz's little sister cries and wants Mum, and he doesn't know what to do.
Who acts: little sister, Tomasz · What happens: cry, want, not know, do · To what, where: Leeds, Mum · 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 sister, Tomasz), 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 Leeds | case |
| 2 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cries | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cries | punct |
| 4 | Tomasz | Tomasz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sister | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Tomasz | case |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sister | amod |
| 7 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cries | nsubj |
| 8 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wants | cc |
| 10 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cries | conj |
| 11 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wants | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 know | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 15 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | aux |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 know | advmod |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 cries | conj |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 do | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 know | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cries | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | present | Tomasz's little sister | Leeds | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in leeds=Location | ||||
| 2 | want | present | Tomasz's little sister not said here | Mum | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot mum=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not know | present · do-support | Tomasz | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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:32.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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