--- title: Jaxon asks, «What's up with him, eh?» Mom says, «Teenager, bud.» Goi… — Big brothers · tree and pragmatics description: Jaxon asks, «What's up with him, eh?» Mom says, «Teenager, bud.» Going quiet is common and usually passes, but if a brother seems really sad for a long time, tell a parent. Who acts: Jaxon, Mom, Going, brother. 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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 (Jaxon, Mom, Going, brother), 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:18 # text = Jaxon asks, «What's up with him, eh?» Mom says, «Teenager, bud.» Going quiet is common and usually passes, but if a brother seems really sad for a long time, tell a parent. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Jaxon Jaxon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 5 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 nsubj _ _ 6 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 up up ADV RB _ 2 parataxis _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 11 eh eh INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ _ 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 14 Mom mom NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 Teenager teenager NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obj 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 bud bud NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ 22 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 23 Going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 csubj _ _ 24 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 usually usually ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 32 if if SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 advcl _ _ 36 really really ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ _ 38 for for ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 43 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Jaxon | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | with Jaxon; up *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mom | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **go** | gerund | | | | | | quiet *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | Going | | | | | common *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **pass** | present | Going *not said here* | | | | | usually *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **seem** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a brother | | | | time | sad *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a parent | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:501-big-brothers.lesson:18`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Big brothers, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/501-big-brothers/17/) - next →: [Big brothers, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/501-big-brothers/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/501-big-brothers/)