Excuses and the lies that grow, sentence 22

Age and height rules on rides are there for safety, not to spoil fun: a smaller body can slip out under the safety bar, and ride staff often measure you anyway.

Who acts: Age, smaller body, ride staff · What happens: be, not spoil, slip out, measure · To what, where: fun, safety bar, you

This is a sentence of the lesson «Excuses and the lies that grow» 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 (Age, smaller body, ride staff), 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	Age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 there	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 rules	cc
3	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Age	conj
4	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Age	conj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 rides	case
6	rides	ride	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rules	nmod
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 there	cop
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 safety	case
10	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spoil	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 safety	punct
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 spoil	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 spoil	mark
14	spoil	spoil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 there	advcl
15	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spoil	obj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 slip	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 body	det
18	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 body	amod
19	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 slip	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 slip	aux
21	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 spoil	conj
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 slip	compound:prt
23	under	under	ADP	_	26 bar	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bar	det
25	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bar	compound
26	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 slip	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 measure	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 measure	cc
29	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 staff	compound
30	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 measure	nsubj
31	often	often	ADV	_	32 measure	advmod
32	measure	measure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 slip	conj
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 measure	obj
34	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	32 measure	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 there	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Age and height and rules on rides			there property	tree rules
2	not spoil	to-infinitive	Age and height and rules on rides not said here	fun		for safety	tree rules
3	slip out	can	a smaller body		the safety bar		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	measure	present	ride staff	you		anyway, often property	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme you=Value

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:337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow.lesson:22.

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): R5-strong ×2. 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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