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title: Big brothers often tease, and a tiny bit of praise from them can fee… — Big brothers · tree and pragmatics
description: Big brothers often tease, and a tiny bit of praise from them can feel like a medal. Who acts: Big brothers, tiny bit. A sentence of the lesson «Big brothers» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Big brothers, sentence 0

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Big brothers often tease, and a tiny bit of praise from them can feel like a medal.

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**Who acts:** Big brothers, tiny bit · **What happens:** tease, feel

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Big brothers» 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 brothers, tiny bit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:501-big-brothers.lesson:0
# text = Big brothers often tease, and a tiny bit of praise from them can feel like a medal.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 501-big-brothers.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): no change
1	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	tease	tease	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	medal	medal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tease** | present | Big brothers |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **feel** | can | a tiny bit of praise from brothers |  |  |  |  | like a medal | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like medal=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:501-big-brothers.lesson:0`.

**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): no change. **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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