Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest», sentence 43
A child can deal with small hurts like a cut knee, but anything serious needs a grown-up straight away.
Who acts: child, anything · What happens: deal, need · To what, where: grown
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 (child, anything), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 deal | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 deal | aux |
| 4 | deal | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 hurts | case |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hurts | amod |
| 7 | hurts | hurt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 deal | obl |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 knee | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 knee | det |
| 10 | cut | cut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 knee | amod |
| 11 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hurts | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 needs | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 needs | cc |
| 14 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 needs | nsubj |
| 15 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 anything | amod |
| 16 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 deal | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 up | det |
| 18 | grown | grow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 needs | obj |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 up | punct |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 grown | compound |
| 21 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 22 away | advmod |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 needs | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 deal | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deal | can | a child | with small hurts like a cut knee | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with hurt=Theme | ||||
| 2 | need | present | anything | grown | away property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot grow=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:43.
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): R5-strong ×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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