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title: In Houston, Aaliyah's little sisters wreck her slime collection. — Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest» · tree and pragmatics
description: In Houston, Aaliyah's little sisters wreck her slime collection. Who acts: little sisters. A sentence of the lesson «Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest», sentence 16

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In Houston, Aaliyah's little sisters wreck her slime collection.

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**Who acts:** little sisters · **What happens:** wreck · **To what, where:** slime collection, Houston

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest»» 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 (little sisters), 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:16
# text = In Houston, Aaliyah's little sisters wreck her slime collection.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Houston	Houston	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Aaliyah	Aaliyah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	wreck	wreck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	slime	slime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wreck** | present | Aaliyah's little sisters | Aaliyah's slime collection |  | Houston |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collection=Patient |

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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.

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**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.

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