--- title: A treat from a sibling is a gift, not a rule; say thanks, and don't… — The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing you… · tree and pragmatics description: A treat from a sibling is a gift, not a rule; say thanks, and don't sulk when it can't happen. Who acts: treat, it. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/500-the-big-sister-bossy-protective-borrowing-your-stuff/41/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [The big sister: bossy, protective, bor…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/500-the-big-sister-bossy-protective-borrowing-your-stuff/) / 41 # The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff, sentence 41 A treat from a sibling is a gift, not a rule; say thanks, and don't sulk when it can't happen. **Who acts:** treat, it · **What happens:** be, say, not sulk, not happen · **To what, where:** gift, thanks · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (treat, it), 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:41 # text = A treat from a sibling is a gift, not a rule; say thanks, and don't sulk when it can't happen. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 treat treat NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 sibling sibling NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 15 thanks thanks NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 sulk sulk VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 21 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a treat from a sibling | a gift and a rule | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | thanks | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic | | 3 | **not** **sulk** | infinitive · do-support | | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **not** **happen** | can | it | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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:41`. **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): 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. 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