Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who, sentence 17

Young children often say "him did it" or "me want it"; this is a normal stage, and they grow out of it by hearing the grown-up forms.

Who acts: Young children, yinz, older speakers, this, children · What happens: say, do, want, be, grow out, hear · To what, where: gender, normal stage, grown forms · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who» of the language 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 (Young children, yinz, older speakers, this), 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	Young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 children	amod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 say	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 say	advmod
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 did	nsubj
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	ccomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 did	obj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 want	cc
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 want	punct
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 want	nsubj
13	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 did	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 want	obj
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 want	punct
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 stage	punct
17	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 stage	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 stage	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 stage	det
20	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 stage	amod
21	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 grow	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 grow	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 grow	nsubj
25	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 stage	conj
26	out	out	ADP	_	28 it	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 grow	obl
29	by	by	SCONJ	_	30 hearing	mark
30	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 grow	advcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 forms	det
32	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 forms	amod
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 up	punct
34	up	up	ADP	_	32 grown	compound:prt
35	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 hearing	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Young children		often property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do in a quote	past	yinz	gender		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	want in a quote	present	some older speakers = speaker	gender		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
4	is a	present	this	a normal stage		tree rules
5	grow out	present	children = child	gender		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
6	hear	gerund	children = child not said here	the grown forms		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer form=Stimulus
7	grow up	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:language:005-pronouns-i-me-you-they-and-who.lesson:17.

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): R4-particle ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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