Sorry, white lies and «because I said so», sentence 15

If a "We'll see" matters to you, ask calmly what would need to change for it to become a yes.

Who acts: We, you, calm · What happens: see, matter, ask, need, change, become · To what, where: you, yes · 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 (We, 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	8 matters	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 see	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
4	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
5	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 matters	nsubj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 matters	punct
8	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 ask	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 matters	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ask	punct
12	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	12 ask	xcomp
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 change	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 need	aux
16	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 ask	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 change	mark
18	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 need	xcomp
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 become	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 become	nsubj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 become	mark
22	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 change	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 yes	det
24	yes	yes	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 become	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 ask	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	see in a quote	future	We			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	matter a condition, not said to happen	present			you	vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to you=Experiencer
3	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	need	would				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	change not said to happen	to-infinitive				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	become	to-infinitive	calm	a yes		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:037-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so.lesson:15.

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): no change. 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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