The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs, sentence 33

Treating a child worse because she is a girl, or he is a boy, is unfair, and many families are changing it.

Who acts: child, favourite, Treating, many families · What happens: treat, be, change · To what, where: child, girl, boy, parent

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 (child, favourite, Treating, many families), 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	18 unfair	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 child	det
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Treating	obj
4	worse	bad	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Treating	advmod
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 girl	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 girl	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 girl	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 girl	det
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Treating	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 boy	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 boy	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 boy	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 boy	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 boy	det
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 girl	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Treating	punct
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 unfair	cop
18	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 changing	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 changing	cc
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 families	amod
22	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 changing	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 changing	aux
24	changing	change	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 unfair	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 changing	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 unfair	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	treat	gerund			a child	bad property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient
2	is a	present	child	a girl or a boy			tree rules
3	is a	present	favourite	a boy			tree rules
4	is	present	Treating			unfair property	tree rules
5	change	present · progressive	many families	parent			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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: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): 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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