Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest», sentence 36
It is fair for an older child to explain calmly what happened and to ask not to be in charge every time.
What happens: be, explain, happen, ask, not be · To what, where: charge · 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: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fair | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fair | cop |
| 3 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 explain | mark |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 child | det |
| 6 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 child | amod |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fair | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 explain | mark |
| 9 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 child | acl |
| 10 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 9 explain | advmod |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 happened | nsubj |
| 12 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 explain | ccomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ask | cc |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 ask | mark |
| 15 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 explain | conj |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 charge | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 charge | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 charge | cop |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 charge | case |
| 20 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ask | xcomp |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 time | det |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 charge | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fair | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a older child obl; fair property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | to-infinitive | calmly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | not is not said to happen | to-infinitive | charge | time | 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:36.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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