--- title: «My brother said it» doesn't get you out of trouble: think before yo… — Big brothers · tree and pragmatics description: «My brother said it» doesn't get you out of trouble: think before you copy. Who acts: brother, you. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/501-big-brothers/26/) [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/) / [Big brothers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/501-big-brothers/) / 26 # Big brothers, sentence 26 «My brother said it» doesn't get you out of trouble: think before you copy. **Who acts:** brother, you · **What happens:** say, not get, think, copy · **To what, where:** class, you, trouble · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (brother, you), 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:26 # text = «My brother said it» doesn't get you out of trouble: think before you copy. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 csubj _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 out out ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 15 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 16 before before SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 copy copy VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | My brother | class | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 2 | **not** **get** | present · do-support | | you | | trouble | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **copy** | present | you | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: 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:26`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Big brothers, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/501-big-brothers/24/) - next →: [Big brothers, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/501-big-brothers/27/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/501-big-brothers/)