When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint, sentence 14
Arguing over paint colours like "Magnolia" or "Duck Egg Blue" is a small disagreement about taste, not a real fight, and it ends with a choice or a compromise.
Who acts: Arguing, first · What happens: argue, be, end · To what, where: small disagreement
This is a sentence of the lesson «When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint» of the adult life 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 (Arguing, first), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arguing | argue | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 disagreement | csubj |
| 2 | over | over | ADP | _ | 4 colours | case |
| 3 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 colours | compound |
| 4 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Arguing | obl |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 Magnolia | case |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Magnolia | punct |
| 7 | Magnolia | Magnolia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 colours | nmod |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Magnolia | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 Duck | cc |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Duck | punct |
| 11 | Duck | Duck | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Magnolia | conj |
| 12 | Egg | Egg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Duck | flat |
| 13 | Blue | Blue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Duck | flat |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Blue | punct |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 disagreement | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 disagreement | det |
| 17 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 disagreement | amod |
| 18 | disagreement | disagreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | about | about | ADP | _ | 20 taste | case |
| 20 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 disagreement | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fight | punct |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 fight | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 fight | det |
| 24 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 fight | amod |
| 25 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 disagreement | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 ends | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 ends | cc |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 ends | nsubj |
| 29 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 disagreement | conj |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 choice | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 choice | det |
| 32 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ends | obl |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 compromise | cc |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 compromise | det |
| 35 | compromise | compromise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 choice | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 disagreement | punct |
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 | argue speech: disagree | gerund | over paint colours like Magnolia or Duck | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent over colour=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Arguing | a small disagreement and a real fight | about taste | tree rules | |||
| 3 | end | present | first | with a choice or a compromise | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with choice=Subeventuality |
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, 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:adult-life:011-when-things-break.lesson:14.
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): R6-punct-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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