Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest», sentence 5

I told you to watch them!» Ifeoma is furious: she didn't do it.

Who acts: I, Ifeoma · What happens: tell, watch, be, not do · To what, where: you, Mum, rainbow · 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 (I, Ifeoma), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 watch	mark
5	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	xcomp
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 watch	obj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct
9	Ifeoma	Ifeoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 furious	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 furious	cop
11	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 told	parataxis
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 do	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 do	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 do	advmod
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 furious	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 do	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	I		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	watch not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	Mum			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	is in a quote	present	Ifeoma			furious property	tree rules
4	not do in a quote	past · do-support	Ifeoma	rainbow			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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:5.

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. 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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