Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away, sentence 6

At Thanksgiving his cousins from California talk about private schools and skiing, and one says, «You're so lucky, you don't have to do anything.» Josiah feels small and angry.

Who acts: cousins, one, You, Josiah · What happens: talk, say, be, not have, do, feel · To what, where: Thanksgiving, anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away» 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 (cousins, one, You, Josiah), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 Thanksgiving	case
2	Thanksgiving	Thanksgiving	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 talk	obl
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 cousins	nmod:poss
4	cousins	cousin	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 talk	nsubj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 California	case
6	California	California	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cousins	nmod
7	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 schools	case
9	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 schools	amod
10	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 talk	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 skiing	cc
12	skiing	skiing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 schools	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 says	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 says	cc
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 says	nsubj
16	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 talk	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lucky	punct
18	«	«	PUNCT	_	22 lucky	punct
19	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 lucky	nsubj
20	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 lucky	cop
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 lucky	advmod
22	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 says	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 says	punct
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 have	nsubj
25	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 have	aux
26	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 have	advmod
27	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 lucky	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	29 do	mark
29	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 have	xcomp
30	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 do	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 have	punct
32	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 talk	punct
33	Josiah	Josiah	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 feels	nsubj
34	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 talk	parataxis
35	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 feels	xcomp
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 angry	cc
37	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 small	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 talk	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	talk	present	Thanksgiving's cousins from California		Thanksgiving	about private schools and skiing	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about school=Topic
2	say speech: assert	present	one				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	You			lucky property	tree rules
4	not have in a quote	present · do-support	you				tree rules
5	do in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	anything			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
6	feel	present	Josiah			small property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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:510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away.lesson:6.

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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