Whose turn is it?, sentence 20
A rule that only ever helps the strongest player is not a fair rule.
Who acts: rule · What happens: help, not be · To what, where: strongest player, fair rule
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 (rule), 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 rule | det |
| 2 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rule | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 helps | nsubj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 ever | advmod |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 helps | advmod |
| 6 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 rule | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 player | det |
| 8 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 player | amod |
| 9 | player | player | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 helps | obj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 rule | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 rule | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 rule | det |
| 13 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rule | amod |
| 14 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 rule | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | a rule | the strongest player | ever | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent player=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | not is a | present | a rule | a fair rule | 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:20.
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 ×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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