Whose turn is it?, sentence 18
A timer makes turns fair without anyone having to be the bad guy.
Who acts: timer · What happens: make, have, be · To what, where: turns, bad guy
This is a sentence of the lesson «Whose turn is it?» 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 (timer), 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 | 2 timer | det |
| 2 | timer | timer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | turns | turn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 makes | obj |
| 5 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 makes | xcomp |
| 6 | without | without | ADP | _ | 7 anyone | case |
| 7 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 makes | obl |
| 8 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 anyone | acl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 guy | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 guy | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 guy | det |
| 12 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 guy | amod |
| 13 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 having | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | a timer | turns | without anyone; fair property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset turn=Product | |||
| 2 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | the bad guy | 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:397-whose-turn-is-it.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): 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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