Sorry, white lies and «because I said so», sentence 7
Seeing parents make up after an argument is a good thing: people can disagree and still love each other.
Who acts: parents, Seeing, people · What happens: see, make up, be, disagree, love · To what, where: good thing, each · 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 (parents, Seeing, 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 | Seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 thing | csubj |
| 2 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | nsubj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Seeing | ccomp |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 make | compound:prt |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 argument | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 argument | det |
| 7 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 thing | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 thing | det |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 thing | amod |
| 11 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 disagree | punct |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 disagree | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 disagree | aux |
| 15 | disagree | disagree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 thing | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 love | cc |
| 17 | still | still | ADV | _ | 18 love | advmod |
| 18 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 disagree | conj |
| 19 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 18 love | obj |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 each | fixed |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | make up | present | parents | after a argument | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | Seeing | a good thing | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | disagree | can | people | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | love | present | people not said here | each | still | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus |
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:7.
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): 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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