--- title: Helping is good, but always missing out on your own life is unfair;… — Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest» · tree and pragmatics description: Helping is good, but always missing out on your own life is unfair; you can tell your parents it matters. Who acts: missing, you, it. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest/39/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Minding the little ones: «you're the o…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest/) / 39 # Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest», sentence 39 Helping is good, but always missing out on your own life is unfair; you can tell your parents it matters. **Who acts:** missing, you, it · **What happens:** help, be, miss out, tell, matter · **To what, where:** own life, parents · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (missing, you, it), 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:39 # text = Helping is good, but always missing out on your own life is unfair; you can tell your parents it matters. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Helping help VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 5 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 6 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 7 advmod _ _ 7 missing miss VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 csubj _ _ 8 out out ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obj 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 unfair unfair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 19 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 iobj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** | gerund | | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **miss out** | gerund | | | | your own life | | always *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is** | present | missing | | | | | unfair *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | you | | your parents | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **matter** | present | it | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | 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:39`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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