--- title: Big brothers are sometimes smug AND right; grandparents learned thin… — Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole… · tree and pragmatics description: Big brothers are sometimes smug AND right; grandparents learned things long ago, often right then and still partly right now; little sisters need gentleness, not a lecture. Who acts: Big brothers, grandparents, little sisters. 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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 brothers, grandparents, little sisters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:032-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground.lesson:2 # text = Big brothers are sometimes smug AND right; grandparents learned things long ago, often right then and still partly right now; little sisters need gentleness, not a lecture. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 032-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 5 advmod _ _ 5 smug smug ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 AND and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 grandparents grandparent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 learned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 11 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 13 ago ago ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 often often ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod 16 right right ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 10 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 still still ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 partly partly ADV RB _ 17 conj _ _ 21 right right ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 27 gentleness gentleness NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 lecture lecture NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Big brothers | | | | | smug, sometimes *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Big brothers *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **learn** | past | grandparents | things | | | then | ago *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | | 4 | **need** | present | little sisters | gentleness and a lecture | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot gentleness=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:myths:032-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground.lesson:2`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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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