--- title: In Houston, Tunde, 12, helps his brother Dayo with math every night… — Siblings as best mates and as rivals · tree and pragmatics description: In Houston, Tunde, 12, helps his brother Dayo with math every night at the kitchen table, and Dayo, who can draw anything, helps Tunde with his art project. Who acts: Tunde, Dayo. 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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 (Tunde, Dayo), 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:2 # text = In Houston, Tunde, 12, helps his brother Dayo with math every night at the kitchen table, and Dayo, who can draw anything, helps Tunde with his art project. # 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 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Houston Houston PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 Tunde Tunde PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 appos _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 8 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 Dayo Dayo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 math math NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 14 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 15 det _ _ 15 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc 22 Dayo Dayo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 draw draw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 acl:relcl _ _ 27 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 26 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 30 Tunde Tunde PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 art art NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 project project NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** | present | Tunde | | Tunde's brother | Houston | night | with math; at the kitchen table | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent brother=Beneficiary with math=Theme | | 2 | **draw** | can | Dayo | anything | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | | 3 | **help** | present | Dayo | | Tunde | | | with Tunde's art project | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent tunde=Beneficiary with project=Theme | | 4 | **project** | | Tunde | | | | | | nom project «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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:507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals.lesson:2`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [Siblings as best mates and as rivals, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals/0/) - next →: [Siblings as best mates and as rivals, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals/)