Kinship care: living with Gran or an aunt, sentence 10
«We're like brothers now,» Malik says, and they fight like brothers too.
Who acts: We, Malik, brothers · What happens: be, say, fight · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Kinship care: living with Gran or an aunt» 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 (We, Malik, brothers), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 says | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 brothers | nsubj |
| 3 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 brothers | cop |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 brothers | case |
| 5 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 says | ccomp |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 says | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 says | punct |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 says | punct |
| 9 | Malik | Malik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 says | nsubj |
| 10 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fight | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fight | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fight | nsubj |
| 14 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 says | conj |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 brothers | case |
| 16 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fight | obl |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 14 fight | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | We | like brothers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Malik | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fight | present | brothers = brother | like brothers | vn battle-36.4-1 «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:523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt.lesson:10.
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): R7-rel-agree ×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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