--- title: Young children often say "him did it" or "me want it"; this is a nor… — Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who · tree and pragmatics description: Young children often say "him did it" or "me want it"; this is a normal stage, and they grow out of it by hearing the grown-up forms. Who acts: Young children, yinz, older speakers, this. 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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 (Young children, yinz, older speakers, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:005-pronouns-i-me-you-they-and-who.lesson:17 # text = Young children often say "him did it" or "me want it"; this is a normal stage, and they grow out of it by hearing the grown-up forms. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 005-pronouns-i-me-you-they-and-who.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): R4-particle ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 often often ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 12 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 stage stage NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 26 out out ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ _ 29 by by SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 30 hearing hear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 32 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 amod _ _ 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ _ 34 up up ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=32:compound 35 forms form NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Young children | | | | | often *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **do** *in a quote* | past | yinz | gender | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 3 | **want** *in a quote* | present | some older speakers *= speaker* | gender | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | this | a normal stage | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **grow out** | present | children *= child* | gender | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | | 6 | **hear** | gerund | children *= child* *not said here* | the grown forms | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer form=Stimulus | | 7 | **grow up** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:language:005-pronouns-i-me-you-they-and-who.lesson:17`. **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): R4-particle ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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