Siblings as best mates and as rivals, sentence 34

When a big sibling always wins, the younger one may give up; letting them win on purpose often feels like pity.

Who acts: big sibling, younger one, Others, letting · What happens: win, give up, let, feel · To what, where: Others, purpose

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 (big sibling, younger one, Others, letting), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	6 wins	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sibling	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sibling	amod
4	sibling	sibling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wins	nsubj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 wins	advmod
6	wins	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 give	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wins	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 one	det
9	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 one	amod
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	nsubj
11	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 give	aux
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 give	compound:prt
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 letting	punct
15	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 feels	csubj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 letting	obj
17	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 letting	xcomp
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 purpose	case
19	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 win	obl
20	often	often	ADV	_	21 feels	advmod
21	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 give	parataxis
22	like	like	ADP	_	23 pity	case
23	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 feels	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	win	present	a big sibling			always property	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give up	may	the younger one				vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	let	gerund		Others = other			tree rules
4	win	infinitive	Others = other not said here		purpose		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	feel	present	letting			like pity; often property	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like pity=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:507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals.lesson:34.

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): no change. 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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