Safe toys and fair board games, sentence 5
Some games are won by thinking (chess) and some by luck (a simple dice game); in a game of chance nobody is to blame for losing.
Who acts: nobody · What happens: win, think, be, lose · To what, where: games, chess, game
This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe toys and fair board games» of the everyday 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 (nobody), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 games | det |
| 2 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 won | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 won | aux:pass |
| 4 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 6 thinking | mark |
| 6 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 won | advcl |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 chess | punct |
| 8 | chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thinking | obj |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 chess | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 some | cc |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 thinking | conj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 luck | case |
| 13 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 some | obl |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 game | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 game | det |
| 16 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 game | amod |
| 17 | dice | dice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 game | compound |
| 18 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 luck | appos |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 game | punct |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 won | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 game | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 game | det |
| 23 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 blame | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 chance | case |
| 25 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 game | nmod |
| 26 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 29 blame | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 blame | cop |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 blame | mark |
| 29 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 won | parataxis |
| 30 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 31 losing | mark |
| 31 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 blame | advcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 won | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | present · passive | some games | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | chess | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot chess=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | nobody | a game of chance | blame property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | lose | gerund | nobody not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «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:everyday:302-toys-and-board-games.lesson:5.
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 ×3. 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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