The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs, sentence 11

Treating girls and boys differently like that is unfair, and many families are changing it, sometimes because a kid spoke up.

Who acts: Treating, many families, kid · What happens: treat, be, change, speak up · To what, where: girls, bike

This is a sentence of the lesson «The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs» 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 (Treating, many families, kid), 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	Treating	treat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 unfair	csubj
2	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Treating	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 boys	cc
4	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 girls	conj
5	differently	differently	ADV	_	1 Treating	advmod
6	like	like	SCONJ	_	9 unfair	mark
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 Treating	obl
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 unfair	cop
9	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 changing	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 changing	cc
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 families	amod
13	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 changing	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 changing	aux
15	changing	change	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 unfair	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 changing	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 spoke	punct
18	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	22 spoke	advmod
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 spoke	mark
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 kid	det
21	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 spoke	nsubj
22	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 changing	advcl
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 spoke	compound:prt
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 unfair	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: evaluate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=neg

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	treat	gerund			girls and boys	that obl; differently property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient
2	is	present	Treating			unfair property	tree rules
3	change	present · progressive	many families	bike			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	speak up speech: other	past	a kid			sometimes property	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: 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:509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs.lesson:11.

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, R8-pos-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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