What everyone learned about fights, sentence 25
A long quarrel between groups usually ends because many people choose to stop, not because one side wins.
Who acts: long quarrel, many people, one side · What happens: end, choose, stop, not win
This is a sentence of the lesson «What everyone learned about fights» 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 (long quarrel, many people, one side), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 quarrel | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 quarrel | amod |
| 3 | quarrel | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ends | nsubj |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 5 groups | case |
| 5 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 quarrel | nmod |
| 6 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 7 ends | advmod |
| 7 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 choose | mark |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 people | amod |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 choose | nsubj |
| 11 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ends | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 stop | mark |
| 13 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 choose | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wins | punct |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 wins | advmod |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 wins | mark |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 side | nummod |
| 18 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wins | nsubj |
| 19 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ends | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ends | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | a long quarrel between groups | usually property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | choose | present | many people | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stop | to-infinitive | many people not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | not win | present | one side | vn succeed-74-2 «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:395-what-everyone-learned.lesson:25.
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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