Siblings as best mates and as rivals, sentence 33
Comparing one child with another («Why can't you be like Rosa?») hurts, and a child may say so calmly.
Who acts: you, Comparing, child · What happens: compare, be, hurt, say · To what, where: one child · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Siblings as best mates and as rivals» 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 (you, Comparing, child), 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 | Comparing | compare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 hurts | csubj |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 child | nummod |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Comparing | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 another | case |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 1 Comparing | obl |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 Rosa | punct |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 Rosa | punct |
| 8 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 ca | advmod |
| 9 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 be | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 ca | advmod |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 Rosa | nsubj |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 Rosa | cop |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 Rosa | case |
| 14 | Rosa | Rosa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 hurts | parataxis |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 Rosa | punct |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 Rosa | punct |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 Rosa | punct |
| 18 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 say | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 say | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 child | det |
| 22 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 say | nsubj |
| 23 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 say | aux |
| 24 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 hurts | conj |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 calmly | advmod |
| 26 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 24 say | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 hurts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | gerund | one child | with another | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent child=Patient with another=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | infinitive | you | like Rosa | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hurt | present | Comparing | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | may | a child | calmly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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:507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals.lesson:33.
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, R6-punct-agree ×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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