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title: When a sibling takes your toys, use words, take turns or ask a grown… — Sharp things, small objects and little ones · tree and pragmatics
description: When a sibling takes your toys, use words, take turns or ask a grown-up, because hitting does not solve the problem. Who acts: sibling, you, hitting. A sentence of the lesson «Sharp things, small objects and little ones» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Sharp things, small objects and little ones, sentence 17

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When a sibling takes your toys, use words, take turns or ask a grown-up, because hitting does not solve the problem.

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**Who acts:** sibling, you, hitting · **What happens:** take, use, ask, not solve · **To what, where:** toys, words, turns, grown, problem

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sharp things, small objects and little ones» 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 (sibling, you, hitting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:112-sharp-things-and-little-ones.lesson:17
# text = When a sibling takes your toys, use words, take turns or ask a grown-up, because hitting does not solve the problem.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 112-sharp-things-and-little-ones.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sibling	sibling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advcl
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
9	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
12	turns	turn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det
16	grown	grown-up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	hitting	hit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
22	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	solve	solve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | a sibling | your toys |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | words |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive | you *not said here* | turns |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* | grown |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **solve** | present · do-support | hitting | the problem |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Topic |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:112-sharp-things-and-little-ones.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): R5-strong ×5, R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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