Sore losers and button-mashers, sentence 31
Playing every day gives you a big head start, so a fair host evens it out.
Who acts: Playing, fair host · What happens: play, give, even out · To what, where: big head start, you, start
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sore losers and button-mashers» 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 (Playing, fair host), 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 | Playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 gives | csubj |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Playing | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 gives | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 start | det |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 start | amod |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 start | compound |
| 9 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gives | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 evens | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 evens | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 host | det |
| 13 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 host | amod |
| 14 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 evens | nsubj |
| 15 | evens | even | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gives | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 evens | obj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 evens | compound:prt |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | gerund | day | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | give | present | Playing | a big head start | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient start=Theme | |||
| 3 | even out | present | a fair host | start | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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:398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers.lesson:31.
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 ×2, 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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