--- title: When a big sibling always wins, the younger one may give up; letting… — Siblings as best mates and as rivals · tree and pragmatics description: When a big sibling always wins, the younger one may give up; letting them win on purpose often feels like pity. Who acts: big sibling, younger one, Others, letting. 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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 (big sibling, younger one, Others, letting), 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:34 # text = When a big sibling always wins, the younger one may give up; letting them win on purpose often feels like pity. # 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): no change 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 6 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 sibling sibling NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 6 advmod _ _ 6 wins win VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 younger young ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 amod _ _ 10 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 13 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 letting let VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 csubj _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 win win VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 20 often often ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 22 like like ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 pity pity NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **win** | present | a big sibling | | | | | always *property* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **give up** | may | the younger one | | | | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **let** | gerund | | Others *= other* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **win** | infinitive | Others *= other* *not said here* | | | purpose | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **feel** | present | letting | | | | | like pity; often *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like pity=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:507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals.lesson:34`. **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): no change. **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, 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals/33/) - next →: [Siblings as best mates and as rivals, 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals/35/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals/)