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title: In Leicester, every time there's a fight Aarav hears, «You're the ol… — Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest» · tree and pragmatics
description: In Leicester, every time there's a fight Aarav hears, «You're the oldest, you should know better.» Fairness means everyone takes their share: «Can we each say what happened?» Who acts: Aarav, You, Fairness, everyone. A sentence of the lesson «Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest»» of the ever
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# Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest», sentence 20

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In Leicester, every time there's a fight Aarav hears, «You're the oldest, you should know better.» Fairness means everyone takes their share: «Can we each say what happened?»

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**Who acts:** Aarav, You, Fairness, everyone, we, sisters · **What happens:** hear, be, know, mean, take, say · **To what, where:** fight, share · **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 (Aarav, You, Fairness, everyone), 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:20
# text = In Leicester, every time there's a fight Aarav hears, «You're the oldest, you should know better.» Fairness means everyone takes their share: «Can we each say what happened?»
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Leicester	Leicester	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
10	Aarav	Aarav	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
14	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	parataxis	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
22	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
24	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
25	Fairness	fairness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	28	nsubj	_	_
28	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
32	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	_
33	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
34	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	advmod	_	_
36	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
37	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	38	nsubj	_	_
38	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	ccomp	_	_
39	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	38	punct	_	_
40	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:punct|HaikuPos=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 | **hear** | present | Aarav | a fight *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer fight=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | You |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** *in a quote* | should | you |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **mean** | present | Fairness |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **take** | present | everyone | sisters's share |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Theme |
| 6 | **say** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | can | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **happen** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **share** |  | sisters *= sister* |  |  |  |  |  | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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): 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.

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