--- title: Pronouns come in two forms: subject forms do the action (I, he, she,… — Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who · tree and pragmatics description: Pronouns come in two forms: subject forms do the action (I, he, she, we, they) and object forms receive it (me, him, her, us, them); "Sam and I went" but "Mum gave sweets to Ben and me". Who acts: Pronouns, subject forms, object forms, Sam. 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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 (Pronouns, subject forms, object forms, Sam), 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:4 # text = Pronouns come in two forms: subject forms do the action (I, he, she, we, they) and object forms receive it (me, him, her, us, them); "Sam and I went" but "Mum gave sweets to Ben and me". # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Pronouns pronoun NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 forms form NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 7 subject subject NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 8 forms form NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 action action NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 appos _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 conj _ _ 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 object object NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 forms form NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 receive receive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 29 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:appos 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 conj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 conj _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 conj _ _ 38 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 39 ; ; PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 40 " " PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=41:punct 41 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 conj _ _ 44 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 44 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=44:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 46 but but CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 47 " " PUNCT `` _ 49 punct _ _ 48 Mum Mum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=49:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 49 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 conj _ _ 50 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 obj _ _ 51 to to ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 Ben Ben PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 obl _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 54 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 52 conj _ _ 55 " " PUNCT '' _ 49 punct _ _ 56 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **come in** | present | Pronouns | two forms | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **do** | present | subject forms | the action | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **receive** | present | object forms | action | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **go** *in a quote* | past | Sam | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **give** *in a quote* | past | Mum | sweets | Ben | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme to ben=Recipient | 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:4`. **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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/5-pronouns-i-me-you-they-and-who/3/) - next →: [Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/5-pronouns-i-me-you-they-and-who/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/5-pronouns-i-me-you-they-and-who/)