--- title: In Birmingham, Ifeoma, the oldest of five, gets two little brothers… — Every family is different · tree and pragmatics description: In Birmingham, Ifeoma, the oldest of five, gets two little brothers dressed, finds a lost shoe and still beats the bell: «Proper bostin' morning, miss, no one cried.» «Bostin'» is Black Country for brilliant. Who acts: Ifeoma, two little brothers, one, Bostin. 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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 (Ifeoma, two little brothers, one, Bostin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:486-every-family-is-different.lesson:14 # text = In Birmingham, Ifeoma, the oldest of five, gets two little brothers dressed, finds a lost shoe and still beats the bell: «Proper bostin' morning, miss, no one cried.» «Bostin'» is Black Country for brilliant. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 486-every-family-is-different.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Birmingham Birmingham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 Ifeoma Ifeoma PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 oldest old ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 appos _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 11 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 13 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 15 dressed dress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:acl 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:parataxis 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 amod _ _ 20 shoe shoe NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 still still ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 beats beat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 bell bell NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 27 « « PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 28 Proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 bostin bostin NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 30 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 31 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 parataxis _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 miss miss NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 36 det _ _ 36 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 39 punct _ _ 39 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 40 « « PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=46:punct 41 Bostin Bostin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 42 ' 's PART POS _ 41 case _ _ 43 » » PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=46:punct 44 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 cop _ _ 45 Black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 Country Country PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=37:parataxis|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 47 for for ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 brilliant brilliant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 nmod _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present | Ifeoma | two little brothers | | Birmingham | | | tree rules | | 2 | **dress** | participle | two little brothers *not said here* | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **find** | present | Ifeoma *not said here* | a lost shoe | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Topic | | 4 | **lose** | participle | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **beat** | present | Ifeoma *not said here* | the bell | | | still | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme | | 6 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | no one | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **is a** | present | Bostin | Black Country | | | | for brilliant | 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:486-every-family-is-different.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Every family is different, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/486-every-family-is-different/12/) - next →: [Every family is different, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/486-every-family-is-different/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/486-every-family-is-different/)