--- title: Mom says, «They're little, let it go.» Aaliyah yells, «It's always m… — Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest» · tree and pragmatics description: Mom says, «They're little, let it go.» Aaliyah yells, «It's always my fault or my problem!» A lock box or a high shelf is a fair ask. Who acts: Mom, sisters, collection, Aaliyah. 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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 (Mom, sisters, collection, Aaliyah), 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:17 # text = Mom says, «They're little, let it go.» Aaliyah yells, «It's always my fault or my problem!» A lock box or a high shelf is a fair ask. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Mom mom NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 5 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 advcl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 14 Aaliyah Aaliyah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 yells yell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 18 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 19 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 22 advmod _ _ 21 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:parataxis 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=22:cc 24 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 26 ! ! PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ 27 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 28 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 lock lock NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=30:cc 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 shelf shelf NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 ask ask NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mom | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | sisters *= sister* | | | | | little *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | collection | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | collection *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **yell** *speech: express* | present | Aaliyah | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | collection | my fault or my problem | | | | always *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **is a** | present | a lock box or a high shelf | a fair ask | | | | | 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:502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest.lesson:17`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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. 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