Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest», sentence 42
Little siblings copy older ones because they look up to them.
Who acts: Little siblings, siblings · What happens: copy, look up · To what, where: older ones, 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 siblings, siblings), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 siblings | amod |
| 2 | siblings | sibling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 copy | nsubj |
| 3 | copy | copy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 ones | amod |
| 5 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 copy | obj |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 look | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 look | nsubj |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 copy | advcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 look | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 look | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 copy | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | copy | present | Little siblings | older ones | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look up | present | siblings = sibling | children = child | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=Theme |
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:42.
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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