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title: Comparing one child with another («Why can't you be like Rosa?») hur… — Siblings as best mates and as rivals · tree and pragmatics
description: Comparing one child with another («Why can't you be like Rosa?») hurts, and a child may say so calmly. Who acts: you, Comparing, child. 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
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# Siblings as best mates and as rivals, sentence 33

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Comparing one child with another («Why can't you be like Rosa?») hurts, and a child may say so calmly.

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**Who acts:** you, Comparing, child · **What happens:** compare, be, hurt, say · **To what, where:** one child · **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 (you, Comparing, child), 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:33
# text = Comparing one child with another («Why can't you be like Rosa?») hurts, and a child may say so calmly.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Comparing	compare	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	csubj	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	1	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
8	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Rosa	Rosa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	parataxis	_	_
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
18	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## 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 |  | one child |  |  |  | with another | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent child=Patient with another=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | you |  |  |  |  | like Rosa | tree rules |
| 3 | **hurt** | present | Comparing |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | may | a child |  |  |  |  | calmly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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:33`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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