--- title: Missing out can be unfair: tell your mam it matters, so someone else… — Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest» · tree and pragmatics description: Missing out can be unfair: tell your mam it matters, so someone else might mind them next time. Who acts: Missing, it, someone. 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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 (Missing, it, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest.lesson:14 # text = Missing out can be unfair: tell your mam it matters, so someone else might mind them next time. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Missing miss VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 csubj _ _ 2 out out ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 cop _ _ 5 unfair unfair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 7 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 8 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 mam mam NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obj 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl:relcl 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 14 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 17 nsubj _ _ 15 else else ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 mind mind VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **miss out** | gerund | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is** | can | Missing | | | | | unfair *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | your mam | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent mam=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **matter** | present | it | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **mind** | might | someone | boys *= boy* | | | time | | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | 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:502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest.lesson:14`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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. 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