--- title: Lots of grandparents spoil their grandchildren: they often have more… — The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad · tree and pragmatics description: Lots of grandparents spoil their grandchildren: they often have more time and fewer rules than busy parents. Who acts: Lots. A sentence of the lesson «The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/512-the-granny-who-spoils-you-and-the-strict-grandad/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [The granny who spoils you and the stri…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/512-the-granny-who-spoils-you-and-the-strict-grandad/) / 2 # The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad, sentence 2 Lots of grandparents spoil their grandchildren: they often have more time and fewer rules than busy parents. **Who acts:** Lots · **What happens:** spoil, have · **To what, where:** grandchildren This is a sentence of the lesson «The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad» 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 (Lots), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:512-the-granny-who-spoils-you-and-the-strict-grandad.lesson:2 # text = Lots of grandparents spoil their grandchildren: they often have more time and fewer rules than busy parents. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 512-the-granny-who-spoils-you-and-the-strict-grandad.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 grandparents grandparent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 4 spoil spoil VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 grandchildren grandchild NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 often often ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 11 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 amod _ _ 12 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 amod _ _ 15 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 16 than than ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spoil** | present | Lots of grandparents | Lots's grandchildren | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | present | Lots *= lot* | | | | time | often *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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. 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