What the numbers on the box mean, sentence 34
You can say «I don't want to play that» without needing a rule as an excuse.
Who acts: You, I · What happens: say, not want, play, need · To what, where: that, rule · 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, I), 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 say | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | aux |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 want | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 want | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 want | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 want | advmod |
| 8 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 say | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 play | mark |
| 10 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 want | xcomp |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 play | obj |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 want | punct |
| 13 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 14 needing | mark |
| 14 | needing | need | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 say | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 rule | det |
| 16 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 needing | obj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 excuse | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 excuse | det |
| 19 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 needing | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | can | You | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not want in a quote | present · do-support | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | play not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | that | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||||
| 4 | need | gerund | You not said here | a rule | as a excuse | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rule=Theme |
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:34.
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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