Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest», sentence 35
Older children often get blamed for what the little ones do, which is unfair when they are children too.
Who acts: little ones, children · What happens: blame, do, be · To what, where: Older children, children
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 ones, children), 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 | Older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 children | amod |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 blamed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 blamed | advmod |
| 4 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 blamed | aux:pass |
| 5 | blamed | blame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 what | case |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 blamed | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ones | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ones | amod |
| 10 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 do | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 what | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 unfair | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 unfair | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 unfair | cop |
| 15 | unfair | unfair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blamed | parataxis |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 children | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 children | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 children | cop |
| 19 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 unfair | advcl |
| 20 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 unfair | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 blamed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blame | present · passive | Older children | often property | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for what=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | do | present | the little ones | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | unfair property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | children = child | children | tree rules |
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:35.
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): 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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