Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much, sentence 11

Teenagers often want more time alone and with friends their own age; it does not mean they have stopped loving their younger brother or sister.

Who acts: Teenagers, it · What happens: want, not mean, stop, love · To what, where: younger brother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much» of the reflection 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 (Teenagers, it), 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	Teenagers	teenager	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 want	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 want	advmod
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 want	obj
6	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 time	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 want	cc
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 friends	case
9	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 want	obl
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 age	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 age	amod
12	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 friends	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 mean	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 mean	nsubj
15	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 mean	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 mean	advmod
17	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 want	parataxis
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 stopped	nsubj
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 stopped	aux
20	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 mean	ccomp
21	loving	love	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 stopped	xcomp
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 brother	nmod:poss
23	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 brother	amod
24	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 loving	obj
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 sister	cc
26	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 brother	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	Teenagers		time	with friends; often property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	not mean	present · do-support	it				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	stop	present · perfect	Teenagers = teenager				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	love	gerund	Teenagers = teenager not said here	Teenagers's younger brother or sister			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=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:reflection:022-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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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