Whose turn is it?, sentence 22
When two people are both sure they are next, a quick fair way like rock, paper, scissors settles it faster than shouting.
Who acts: two people, people, quick fair way · What happens: be, settle, shout · To what, where: paper
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 (two people, people, quick fair way), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 sure | mark |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 people | nummod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sure | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sure | cop |
| 5 | both | both | ADV | _ | 6 sure | advmod |
| 6 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 settles | advcl |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 next | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 next | cop |
| 9 | next | next | ADV | _ | 6 sure | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 way | det |
| 12 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 way | amod |
| 13 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 way | amod |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 settles | nsubj |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 rock | case |
| 16 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 way | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 paper | punct |
| 18 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 way | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 scissors | punct |
| 20 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 way | conj |
| 21 | settles | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 settles | obj |
| 23 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 settles | advmod |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 shouting | case |
| 25 | shouting | shout | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 settles | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 settles | 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 | two people | both, sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | people | next property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | settle | present | a quick fair way like rock and paper and scissors | paper | fast property | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme it=Location | |||
| 4 | shout speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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:397-whose-turn-is-it.lesson:22.
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 ×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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