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title: In London, Harrison's little brothers break his PlayStation controll… — Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest» · tree and pragmatics
description: In London, Harrison's little brothers break his PlayStation controller and Dad says, «You should've put it away.» «That's peak,» mutters Harrison (London slang for «so unfair, so bad»). Who acts: little brothers, Dad, You, That. A sentence of the lesson «Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest»»
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# Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest», sentence 18

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In London, Harrison's little brothers break his PlayStation controller and Dad says, «You should've put it away.» «That's peak,» mutters Harrison (London slang for «so unfair, so bad»).

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**Who acts:** little brothers, Dad, You, That, Harrison · **What happens:** break, say, put away, be, mutter · **To what, where:** PlayStation controller, London, controller, peak · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 brothers, Dad, You, That), 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:18
# text = In London, Harrison's little brothers break his PlayStation controller and Dad says, «You should've put it away.» «That's peak,» mutters Harrison (London slang for «so unfair, so bad»).
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Harrison	Harrison	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	break	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	PlayStation	PlayStation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	controller	controller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
17	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	've	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
20	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	ccomp	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
24	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
25	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
26	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem
27	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	peak	peak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	parataxis	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
31	mutters	mutter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj
32	Harrison	Harrison	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
33	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	_
34	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	parataxis	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=39:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
38	so	so	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	unfair	unfair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	nmod	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=39:punct
41	so	so	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	conj	_	_
43	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	_
44	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
45	.	.	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 | **break** | present | Harrison's little brothers | Harrison's PlayStation controller |  | London |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer controller=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Dad |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **put away** *in a quote* | should · perfect | You | controller |  |  |  | away *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | That | peak |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **mutter** *speech: assert* | present | Harrison |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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