Adults who help and adults who don't, sentence 18
«Boys will be boys» is an excuse, not a reason; boys can learn not to fight just like anyone else.
Who acts: Boys · What happens: be, learn, not fight · To what, where: boys, excuse
This is a sentence of the lesson «Adults who help and adults who don't» 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 (Boys), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 Boys | punct |
| 2 | Boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 excuse | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 boys | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 boys | cop |
| 5 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Boys | conj |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 boys | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 excuse | cop |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 excuse | det |
| 9 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 reason | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 reason | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 reason | det |
| 13 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 excuse | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 learn | punct |
| 15 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 learn | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 learn | aux |
| 17 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 excuse | parataxis |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 fight | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 fight | mark |
| 20 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 learn | xcomp |
| 21 | just | just | ADV | _ | 23 anyone | advmod |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 anyone | case |
| 23 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 fight | obl |
| 24 | else | else | ADV | _ | 23 anyone | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 excuse | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | future | Boys and boys not said here | boys | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Boys and boys | a excuse and a reason | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | learn | can | boys | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not fight | to-infinitive | boys not said here | like anyone | vn battle-36.4-1 «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:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont.lesson:18.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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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