Feuds between families, sentence 18

Some are only a game: Mia's uncle in Texas yells over the fence every Fourth of July, «Y'all's brisket is drier than the Alamo!», and the cook-off ends with everyone eating both.

Who acts: Some, uncle, brisket, cook off · What happens: be, yell, end, eat · To what, where: game, Fourth, fence, both · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Feuds between families» 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 (Some, uncle, brisket, cook off), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 game	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 game	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 game	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 game	det
5	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 uncle	punct
7	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 uncle	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Mia	case
9	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 yells	nsubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 yells	case
11	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 uncle	nmod
12	yells	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 game	parataxis
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 fence	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fence	det
15	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 yells	obl
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 Fourth	det
17	Fourth	fourth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 yells	obl:unmarked
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 July	case
19	July	July	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Fourth	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 drier	punct
21	«	«	PUNCT	_	26 drier	punct
22	Y'all	Y'all	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 brisket	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 Y'all	case
24	brisket	brisket	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 drier	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 drier	cop
26	drier	dry	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 yells	parataxis
27	than	than	ADP	_	29 Alamo	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Alamo	det
29	Alamo	alamo	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 drier	obl
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 drier	punct
31	»	»	PUNCT	_	26 drier	punct
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 ends	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 ends	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 off	det
35	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 off	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 off	punct
37	off	off	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 ends	nsubj
38	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 yells	conj
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 everyone	case
40	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	38 ends	obl
41	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	40 everyone	acl
42	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	41 eating	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 game	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Some	a game			tree rules
2	yell speech: express	present	Mia's uncle Texas	every Fourth of July	the fence		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	present	Y'all's brisket			than the Alamo; dry property	tree rules
4	end	present	the cook off			with everyone	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with everyone=Subeventuality
5	eat	gerund		both			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=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:474-feuds-between-families.lesson:18.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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