Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness, sentence 8
Fair does not always mean the same for everyone; sometimes it means each person gets what they need.
Who acts: Fair, it, person, rules · What happens: not mean, mean, get, need · To what, where: same · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Fair, it, person, rules), 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 | Fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mean | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mean | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 mean | advmod |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 mean | advmod |
| 5 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 same | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mean | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 everyone | case |
| 9 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 same | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 means | punct |
| 11 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 means | advmod |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 means | nsubj |
| 13 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mean | parataxis |
| 14 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 person | det |
| 15 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gets | nsubj |
| 16 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 means | ccomp |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 gets | obj |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 need | nsubj |
| 19 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 what | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mean | present · do-support | Fair | the same | always property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Topic | |||
| 2 | mean | present | it | sometimes property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | get | present | each person | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | need | present | rules = rule | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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:8.
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): 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.
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