--- title: Big brothers often tease, but their small praise can mean a lot to a… — Big brothers · tree and pragmatics description: Big brothers often tease, but their small praise can mean a lot to a younger sibling. Who acts: Big brothers, small praise, brothers. 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/35/) [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/) / 35 # Big brothers, sentence 35 Big brothers often tease, but their small praise can mean a lot to a younger sibling. **Who acts:** Big brothers, small praise, brothers · **What happens:** tease, mean, praise · **To what, where:** lot 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, small praise, brothers), 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:35 # text = Big brothers often tease, but their small praise can mean a lot to a younger sibling. # 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|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 praise praise NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 younger young ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 amod _ _ 17 sibling sibling NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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 | **mean** | can | brothers's small praise | a lot | | | | to a younger sibling | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot lot=Theme to sibling=Attribute | | 3 | **praise** | | brothers *= brother* | | | | | | nom praise «communication transitive»: poss=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:35`. **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/). - ← previous: [Big brothers, 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/501-big-brothers/34/) - next →: [Big brothers, 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/501-big-brothers/36/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/501-big-brothers/)