The brother who never does anything wrong: double standards at home, sentence 3
Ben breaks a vase: "He's only little." Hannah broke a cup at the same age: "That was different, you were naughty." Same act, same age, two judgements.
Who acts: Ben, Hannah, That, you · What happens: break, be · To what, where: vase, cup, same age · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The brother who never does anything wrong: double standards at home» of the world 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 (Ben, Hannah, That, you), 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 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 breaks | nsubj |
| 2 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 vase | det |
| 4 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 breaks | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 little | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 little | punct |
| 7 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 little | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 little | cop |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 little | advmod |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 breaks | parataxis |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 little | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 broke | punct |
| 13 | Hannah | Hannah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 broke | nsubj |
| 14 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 breaks | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cup | det |
| 16 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 broke | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 age | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 age | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 age | amod |
| 20 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 broke | obl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 different | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 different | punct |
| 23 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 different | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 different | cop |
| 25 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 breaks | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 naughty | punct |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 naughty | nsubj |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 naughty | cop |
| 29 | naughty | naughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 different | parataxis |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 naughty | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 naughty | punct |
| 32 | Same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 act | amod |
| 33 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 breaks | parataxis |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 age | punct |
| 35 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 age | amod |
| 36 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 act | appos |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 judgements | punct |
| 38 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 judgements | nummod |
| 39 | judgements | judgement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 act | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 breaks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present | Ben | a vase | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Ben | little property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | break | past | Hannah | a cup | at the same age | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cup=Patient | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | That | different property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | past | you | naughty property | tree rules |
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:world:165-the-brother-who-never-does-anything-wrong-double-standards.lesson:3.
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. 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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