Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest», sentence 41
Fairness means each child takes their share of the blame, not always the oldest.
Who acts: Fairness, child, children · What happens: mean, take, share · To what, where: share, blame · 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 (Fairness, child, 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 | Fairness | fairness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 child | det |
| 4 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 takes | nsubj |
| 5 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 means | ccomp |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 share | nmod:poss |
| 7 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 takes | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 blame | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 blame | det |
| 10 | blame | blame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 share | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 oldest | punct |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 oldest | advmod |
| 13 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 15 oldest | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 oldest | det |
| 15 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 blame | appos |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Fairness | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | take | present | each child | children's share of the blame | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Theme | ||||
| 3 | share | children = child | the blame | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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:41.
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): no change. 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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