Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest», sentence 39
Helping is good, but always missing out on your own life is unfair; you can tell your parents it matters.
Who acts: missing, you, it · What happens: help, be, miss out, tell, matter · To what, where: own life, parents · 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 (missing, you, it), 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 | Helping | help | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 good | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 good | cop |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 unfair | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 unfair | cc |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 missing | advmod |
| 7 | missing | miss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 unfair | csubj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 missing | compound:prt |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 life | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 life | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 life | amod |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 missing | obl |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 unfair | cop |
| 14 | unfair | unfair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 good | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 tell | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 tell | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 tell | aux |
| 18 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 good | conj |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 parents | nmod:poss |
| 20 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 tell | iobj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 matters | nsubj |
| 22 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 tell | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | gerund | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | miss out | gerund | your own life | always property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is | present | missing | unfair property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | can | you | your parents | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | matter | present | it | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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:39.
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): R6-punct-agree ×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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