What the numbers on the box mean, sentence 23
You never need a rule to say no to something you do not like.
Who acts: You · What happens: not need, say, not like · To what, where: rule, no, something · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «What the numbers on the box mean» 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 (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 need | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 need | advmod |
| 3 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 rule | det |
| 5 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 need | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 say | mark |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 rule | acl |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 say | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 something | case |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 say | obl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 like | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 like | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 like | advmod |
| 14 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 something | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 need | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not need | present | You | a rule | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rule=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | You not said here | no | something | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent no=Topic to something=Recipient | |||
| 3 | not like | present · do-support | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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:400-what-the-numbers-on-the-box-mean.lesson:23.
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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