--- title: «We're a two-man team, bro.» Some brothers and sisters are best mate… — Siblings as best mates and as rivals · tree and pragmatics description: «We're a two-man team, bro.» Some brothers and sisters are best mates who back each other up and share what they're good at. Who acts: We, brothers, best mates, mates. 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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 (We, brothers, best mates, mates), 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:3 # text = «We're a two-man team, bro.» Some brothers and sisters are best mates who back each other up and share what they're good at. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 2 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 3 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 team team NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 bro bro NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 vocative _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 11 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 13 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 14 det _ _ 14 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 19 amod _ _ 19 mates mate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 parataxis _ _ 20 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 back back VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 each each PRON DT PronType=Rcp 21 obj _ _ 23 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 fixed _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 share share VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 27 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 30 obl _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 ccomp _ _ 31 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | We | a man team | | | | bro *vocative* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | some brothers and sisters | best mates | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **back up** | present | best mates | each | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Agent | | 4 | **share** | present | best mates *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | mates *= mate* | | | | | good *property* | 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:507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals.lesson:3`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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. 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