--- title: She can say calmly, «I was watching, they were too fast,» and it's f… — Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest» · tree and pragmatics description: She can say calmly, «I was watching, they were too fast,» and it's fair to ask not to be in charge every time. Who acts: Ifeoma, kids. 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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 (Ifeoma, kids), 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:7 # text = She can say calmly, «I was watching, they were too fast,» and it's fair to ask not to be in charge every time. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×5 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 calmly calmly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 watching watch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 too too ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=14:cc 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj 19 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:xcomp 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 cop _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obl 28 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 29 det _ _ 29 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 30 . . 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | Ifeoma | | | | | calmly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **watch** *in a quote* | past · progressive | Ifeoma | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | kids *= kid* | | | | | fast *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | kids *= kid* *not said here* | | | | | fair *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | | | | | time | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | charge | | | 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:7`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×5. **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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