Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest», sentence 9

In Peterborough, Mum works evenings, so Kacper, 9, gives his brothers, 4 and 6, their tea and puts them to bed most nights.

Who acts: Mum, Kacper · What happens: work, give, put · To what, where: tea, brothers, Mum

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 (Mum, Kacper), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 Peterborough	case
2	Peterborough	Peterborough	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 works	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Peterborough	punct
4	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 works	nsubj
5	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	evenings	evening	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 works	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gives	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	13 gives	advmod
9	Kacper	Kacper	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 gives	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 9	punct
11	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 Kacper	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Kacper	punct
13	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 works	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 brothers	nmod:poss
15	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 gives	iobj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 4	punct
17	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 brothers	appos
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 6	cc
19	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 4	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tea	punct
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 tea	nmod:poss
22	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gives	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 puts	cc
24	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 gives	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 puts	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 bed	case
27	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 puts	obl
28	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 nights	amod
29	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 puts	obl:unmarked
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 works	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	Mum			evening	in Peterborough	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in peterborough=Theme
2	give	present	Kacper	Mum's tea	Kacper's brothers			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient tea=Theme
3	put	present	Kacper not said here	Mum		night	to bed	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal

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:9.

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 ×2. 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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