Sorry, white lies and «because I said so», sentence 12
"Because I said so" usually means the parent is too tired to explain again, or the decision is about safety or fairness and is made; a calm "Can you tell me why?" later works better than arguing.
Who acts: parent, decision, you, calm · What happens: say, mean, be, explain, make, tell · To what, where: Most people · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sorry, white lies and «because I said so»» 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 (parent, decision, you, calm), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 2 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 4 said | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 7 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 8 means | advmod |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 parent | det |
| 10 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tired | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 tired | cop |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 tired | advmod |
| 13 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 means | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 explain | mark |
| 15 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 tired | advcl |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 explain | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 safety | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 safety | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 decision | det |
| 20 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 safety | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 safety | cop |
| 22 | about | about | ADP | _ | 23 safety | case |
| 23 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tired | conj |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 fairness | cc |
| 25 | fairness | fairness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 safety | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 made | cc |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 made | aux:pass |
| 28 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 safety | conj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 calm | punct |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 calm | det |
| 31 | calm | calm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 works | nsubj |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 tell | punct |
| 33 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 tell | aux |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 tell | nsubj |
| 35 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 calm | parataxis |
| 36 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 tell | iobj |
| 37 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 tell | advmod |
| 38 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 37 why | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 tell | punct |
| 40 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 41 works | advmod |
| 41 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | parataxis |
| 42 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 41 works | advmod |
| 43 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 44 arguing | mark |
| 44 | arguing | argue | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 42 better | advcl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the parent = parent | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | usually property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the parent | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | explain speech: assert | to-infinitive | the parent not said here | again | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is | present | the decision | about safety or fairness | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | make | present · passive | the decision not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | |||||
| 7 | tell speech: assert in a quote | can | you | Most people = people | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 8 | work | present | a calm | late, well property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | argue speech: disagree | gerund | a calm not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:037-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so.lesson:12.
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 ×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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