--- title: A big brother «sorting someone out» is revenge and usually makes thi… — Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality» · tree and pragmatics description: A big brother «sorting someone out» is revenge and usually makes things worse for everyone. Who acts: big brother. A sentence of the lesson «Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality/21/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality/) / 21 # Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality», sentence 21 A big brother «sorting someone out» is revenge and usually makes things worse for everyone. **Who acts:** big brother · **What happens:** sort out, be, make · **To what, where:** someone, revenge, things This is a sentence of the lesson «Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality»» 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 (big brother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality.lesson:21 # text = A big brother «sorting someone out» is revenge and usually makes things worse for everyone. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 sorting sort VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 6 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 obj _ _ 7 out out ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 revenge revenge NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 usually usually ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 14 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 xcomp _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 15 obl _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sort out** *in a quote* | gerund | a big brother *not said here* | someone | | | | | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | a big brother | revenge | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | present | a big brother *not said here* | things | | | | bad, usually *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product | 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](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:379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality.lesson:21`. **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): R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality», 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality/20/) - next →: [Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality», 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality/)