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title: Being compared to a sibling hurts, and she is allowed to tell Mum so… — Siblings as best mates and as rivals · tree and pragmatics
description: Being compared to a sibling hurts, and she is allowed to tell Mum so: «I'm not Rosa, I'm me.» Who acts: Elowen. A sentence of the lesson «Siblings as best mates and as rivals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Siblings as best mates and as rivals, sentence 11

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Being compared to a sibling hurts, and she is allowed to tell Mum so: «I'm not Rosa, I'm me.»

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**Who acts:** Elowen · **What happens:** compare, hurt, allow, tell, not be, be · **To what, where:** Elowen, Mum, Rosa · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Siblings as best mates and as rivals» 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 (Elowen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals.lesson:11
# text = Being compared to a sibling hurts, and she is allowed to tell Mum so: «I'm not Rosa, I'm me.»
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals.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, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	csubj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det
5	sibling	sibling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:NFP:_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	Rosa	Rosa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	parataxis	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
27	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:NFP:_
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## 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 | **compare** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  | to a sibling | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle» |
| 2 | **hurt** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **allow** | present · passive |  | Elowen |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Elowen *not said here* |  | Mum |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | Elowen | Rosa |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Elowen | Elowen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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