--- title: Teenagers often want more time alone and with friends their own age;… — Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and… · tree and pragmatics description: Teenagers often want more time alone and with friends their own age; it does not mean they have stopped loving their younger brother or sister. Who acts: Teenagers, it. 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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 (Teenagers, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:022-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much.lesson:11 # text = Teenagers often want more time alone and with friends their own age; it does not mean they have stopped loving their younger brother or sister. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 022-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Teenagers teenager NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 amod _ _ 5 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 alone alone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 stopped stop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 ccomp _ _ 21 loving love VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 xcomp _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 younger young ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 amod _ _ 24 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=24:cc 26 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | present | Teenagers | | | | time | with friends; often *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | it | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **stop** | present · perfect | Teenagers *= teenager* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **love** | gerund | Teenagers *= teenager* *not said here* | Teenagers's younger brother or sister | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus | 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:reflection:022-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much.lesson:11`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Lonely and different: accents, big bro…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/22-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much/10/) - next →: [Lonely and different: accents, big bro…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/22-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/22-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much/)