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title: Big sisters are often bossy and protective at the same time; both co… — The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing you… · tree and pragmatics
description: Big sisters are often bossy and protective at the same time; both come from feeling responsible. Who acts: Big sisters, both. A sentence of the lesson «The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff, sentence 32

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Big sisters are often bossy and protective at the same time; both come from feeling responsible.

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**Who acts:** Big sisters, both · **What happens:** be, come, feel

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff» 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 (Big sisters, both), 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:32
# text = Big sisters are often bossy and protective at the same time; both come from feeling responsible.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	bossy	bossy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	protective	protective	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot
14	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
16	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obl
17	responsible	responsible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Big sisters |  |  |  |  | bossy, often *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Big sisters *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | present | both |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **feel** | gerund | both *not said here* |  |  |  |  | responsible *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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.

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**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:32`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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