Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest», sentence 40
The oldest child's things deserve protecting too; a lock box or high shelf is a fair ask.
Who acts: things, lock box · What happens: deserve, protect, be · To what, where: fair ask
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 (things, lock box), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 child | det |
| 2 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 child | amod |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 things | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 child | case |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 deserve | nsubj |
| 6 | deserve | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | protecting | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 deserve | xcomp |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 protecting | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 ask | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 box | det |
| 11 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 box | compound |
| 12 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ask | nsubj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 shelf | cc |
| 14 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 shelf | amod |
| 15 | shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 box | conj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 ask | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 ask | det |
| 18 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ask | amod |
| 19 | ask | ask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 deserve | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 deserve | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deserve | present | the oldest child's things | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | protect | gerund | the oldest child's things not said here | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | a lock box or high shelf | a fair ask | 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:40.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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