--- title: Anyone, even a sister, should ask before posting your picture, and B… — The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing you… · tree and pragmatics description: Anyone, even a sister, should ask before posting your picture, and Bea can ask her to take it down. Who acts: Anyone, Bea. 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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 (Anyone, Bea), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:500-the-big-sister-bossy-protective-borrowing-your-stuff.lesson:19 # text = Anyone, even a sister, should ask before posting your picture, and Bea can ask her to take it down. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 500-the-big-sister-bossy-protective-borrowing-your-stuff.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 ×1 1 Anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 8 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 even even ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:nmod 6 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 7 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 before before SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 posting post VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 11 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 Bea Bea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 18 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 iobj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 down down ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | should | Anyone | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **post** | gerund | Anyone *not said here* | your picture | | | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | can | Bea | | Ffion | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **take down** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Bea *not said here* | picture | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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:500-the-big-sister-bossy-protective-borrowing-your-stuff.lesson:19`. **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 ×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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