--- title: Copying something rude a brother taught you still gets you in troubl… — Big brothers · tree and pragmatics description: Copying something rude a brother taught you still gets you in trouble; «my brother said it» is no excuse. Who acts: brother, Copying. 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/43/) [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/) / 43 # Big brothers, sentence 43 Copying something rude a brother taught you still gets you in trouble; «my brother said it» is no excuse. **Who acts:** brother, Copying · **What happens:** copy, teach, get, say, be · **To what, where:** something, you, trouble, excuse · **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, Copying), 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:43 # text = Copying something rude a brother taught you still gets you in trouble; «my brother said it» is no excuse. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Copying copy VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 csubj _ _ 2 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obj _ _ 3 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj 6 taught teach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 still still ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 14 « « PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 15 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 csubj _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 22 det _ _ 22 excuse excuse NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **copy** | gerund | | something | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | | 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | a brother | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 3 | **get** | present | Copying | you | | trouble | still | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | my brother | trouble | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 5 | **is a** | present | | no excuse | | | | | tree rules | 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:43`. **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 ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Big brothers, 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/501-big-brothers/42/) - next →: [Big brothers, 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/501-big-brothers/44/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/501-big-brothers/)