--- title: Big sisters who do a parent's jobs need help too: make her a tea, an… — The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing you… · tree and pragmatics description: Big sisters who do a parent's jobs need help too: make her a tea, and tell Dad or a teacher if she seems really down. Who acts: Big sisters, parent. 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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 (Big sisters, parent), 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:31 # text = Big sisters who do a parent's jobs need help too: make her a tea, and tell Dad or a teacher if she seems really 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 ×2 1 Big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 jobs job NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 9 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 too too ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 13 make make VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 14 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obj 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 20 Dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 24 if if SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 27 really really ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 down down ADV RB _ 26 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:advmod 29 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present | Big sisters | a parent's jobs | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | | 2 | **need** | present | Big sisters | help | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | | 3 | **make** | infinitive | | a tea | parent | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary tea=Product | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | Dad or a teacher | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient | | 5 | **seem** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | parent | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **job** | | a parent | | | | | | nom job «act 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:500-the-big-sister-bossy-protective-borrowing-your-stuff.lesson:31`. **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. **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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