Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest», sentence 7

She can say calmly, «I was watching, they were too fast,» and it's fair to ask not to be in charge every time.

Who acts: Ifeoma, kids · What happens: say, watch, be, ask, not be · To what, where: charge · 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 (Ifeoma, kids), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 say	aux
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	3 say	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 watching	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 watching	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 watching	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 watching	aux
9	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 say	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fast	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fast	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fast	cop
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 fast	advmod
14	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 say	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fast	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 fast	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fair	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 fair	expl
19	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 fair	cop
20	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fast	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 ask	mark
22	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 fair	csubj
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 charge	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	27 charge	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 charge	cop
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 charge	case
27	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ask	xcomp
28	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	29 time	det
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ask	obl:unmarked
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	can	Ifeoma			calmly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	watch in a quote	past · progressive	Ifeoma				vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	past	kids = kid			fast property	tree rules
4	is	present	kids = kid not said here			fair property	tree rules
5	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive			time		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not is not said to happen	to-infinitive		charge			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:7.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×5. 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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