--- title: Standing up for a younger brother or sister is good, and telling a g… — Rival teams and the older bully · tree and pragmatics description: Standing up for a younger brother or sister is good, and telling a grown-up as well is better. Who acts: Standing, telling. A sentence of the lesson «Rival teams and the older bully» 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/472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully/30/) [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/) / [Rival teams and the older bully](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully/) / 30 # Rival teams and the older bully, sentence 30 Standing up for a younger brother or sister is good, and telling a grown-up as well is better. **Who acts:** Standing, telling · **What happens:** stand up, be, tell, grow · **To what, where:** grown up · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Rival teams and the older bully» 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 (Standing, telling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully.lesson:30 # text = Standing up for a younger brother or sister is good, and telling a grown-up as well is better. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3 1 Standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 csubj _ _ 2 up up ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 younger young ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 amod _ _ 6 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=10:punct 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 13 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 csubj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det 15 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ _ 17 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 18 as as ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 21 cc _ _ 19 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 18 fixed _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 conj _ _ 22 . . 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 | **stand up** | gerund | | | | | | for a younger brother or sister | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | Standing | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | a grown up | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient | | 4 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | telling | | | | | good *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](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:472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully.lesson:30`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3. **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: [Rival teams and the older bully, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully/29/) - next →: [Rival teams and the older bully, 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully/31/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully/)