«It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other, sentence 15
Tricking someone smaller is easy — that is exactly why it is unfair.
Who acts: that, castle · What happens: trick, be · To what, where: someone
This is a sentence of the lesson ««It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other» 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 (that, castle), 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 | Tricking | trick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 easy | csubj |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Tricking | obj |
| 3 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 someone | amod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 easy | cop |
| 5 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 easy | punct |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 easy | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 unfair | cop |
| 9 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 10 why | advmod |
| 10 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 unfair | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 unfair | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 unfair | cop |
| 13 | unfair | unfair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 easy | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=evaluate, polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trick | gerund | someone | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | present | that | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | castle | unfair property | 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:432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other.lesson:15.
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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