--- title: In Melbourne people keep asking Jethro, «What's wrong with your brot… — A sibling with a disability or illness, a siblin… · tree and pragmatics description: In Melbourne people keep asking Jethro, «What's wrong with your brother?» «Nothing's wrong, he just uses wheels,» says Jethro, and walks on. Who acts: people, Jethro. 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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 (people, Jethro), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:506-a-sibling-with-a-disability-or-illness-or-who-left-home.lesson:13 # text = In Melbourne people keep asking Jethro, «What's wrong with your brother?» «Nothing's wrong, he just uses wheels,» says Jethro, and walks on. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 506-a-sibling-with-a-disability-or-illness-or-who-left-home.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Melbourne Melbourne PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 5 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ _ 6 Jethro Jethro PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 9 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 11 nsubj _ _ 10 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 18 Nothing nothing PRON NN PronType=Neg 20 nsubj _ _ 19 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 20 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 ccomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 just just ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:conj 25 wheels wheel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 27 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 28 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 29 Jethro Jethro PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 33 on on ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | present | people | | | Melbourne | | | tree rules | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | people *not said here* | | Jethro | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent jethro=Recipient | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | with your brother; wrong *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | Nothing | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **use** *in a quote* | present | Jethro | wheels | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheel=Patient | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Jethro | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **walk on** | present | Jethro *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:506-a-sibling-with-a-disability-or-illness-or-who-left-home.lesson:13`. **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): R5-strong ×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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