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title: You can tell a sibling the bossing annoys you and still thank her fo… — The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing you… · tree and pragmatics
description: You can tell a sibling the bossing annoys you and still thank her for looking out for you. Who acts: You, bossing. 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 of every c
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# The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff, sentence 33

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You can tell a sibling the bossing annoys you and still thank her for looking out for you.

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**Who acts:** You, bossing · **What happens:** tell, annoy, thank, look out · **To what, where:** sibling, you, bossing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (You, bossing), 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:33
# text = You can tell a sibling the bossing annoys you and still thank her for looking out for you.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sibling	sibling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bossing	bossing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	annoys	annoy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
15	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obl
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | You |  | a sibling |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent sibling=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **annoy** | present | the bossing | you |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
| 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | the bossing *not said here* |  | bossing |  | still |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **look out** | gerund | the bossing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for you | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for you=Theme |

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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:33`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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/).

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