What fights cost: bruises, noses and teeth, sentence 19
Real fights are messy and ugly, not like on TV.
Who acts: Real fights · What happens: be
This is a sentence of the lesson «What fights cost: bruises, noses and teeth» 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 (Real fights), 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fights | amod |
| 2 | fights | fight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 messy | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 messy | cop |
| 4 | messy | messy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 ugly | cc |
| 6 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 messy | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 like | punct |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 like | advmod |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 messy | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 TV | case |
| 11 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 like | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 messy | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Real fights | messy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Real fights not said here | tree rules |
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:374-what-fights-cost-bruises-noses-and-teeth.lesson:19.
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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