Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness, sentence 17
Rules and laws are shared agreements; people follow them even when they dislike them, and change bad ones through proper ways.
Who acts: people · What happens: share, follow, dislike, change · To what, where: Rules, bad ones, proper ways
This is a sentence of the lesson «Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness» 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 (people), 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 | Rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shared | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 laws | cc |
| 3 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Rules | conj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 shared | aux:pass |
| 5 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | agreements | agreement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shared | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 follow | punct |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 follow | nsubj |
| 9 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 shared | parataxis |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 follow | obj |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 14 dislike | advmod |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 dislike | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 dislike | nsubj |
| 14 | dislike | dislike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 follow | advcl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 dislike | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 change | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 change | cc |
| 18 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 follow | conj |
| 19 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ones | amod |
| 20 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 change | obj |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 ways | case |
| 22 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 ways | amod |
| 23 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 change | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shared | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | present · passive | Rules and laws | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | follow | present | people | rules = rule | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dislike | present | people | rules = rule | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | change | present | people not said here | bad ones | proper ways | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
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:033-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness.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): R1-cc-next ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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