--- title: Leo broke his little sister's Lego castle and told six-year-old Eve… — «It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other · tree and pragmatics description: Leo broke his little sister's Lego castle and told six-year-old Eve she'd done it in her sleep; she believed him for a whole day. Who acts: Leo, Eve. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Leo, Eve), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other.lesson:14 # text = Leo broke his little sister's Lego castle and told six-year-old Eve she'd done it in her sleep; she believed him for a whole day. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Leo Leo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 Lego Lego PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 15 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 Eve Eve PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:iobj 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 'd have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:MD:VerbForm=Fin 19 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 ccomp _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 believed believe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** | past | Leo | Leo's little sister's Lego castle | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Patient | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Leo *not said here* | | old Eve | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent eve=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **do** | past · perfect | Eve | castle | | Eve's sleep | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 4 | **believe** | past | Eve | Leo | | | day | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 5 | **sleep** | | Eve | | | | | | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other.lesson:14`. **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 ×2, 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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