Solving disagreements calmly, sentence 17
Flipping a coin is a fair way to decide when both choices are equally good.
Who acts: Flipping, choices · What happens: flip, be, decide · To what, where: coin, fair way
This is a sentence of the lesson «Solving disagreements calmly» 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 (Flipping, choices), 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 | Flipping | flip | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 way | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 coin | det |
| 3 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Flipping | obj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 way | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 6 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 way | amod |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 decide | mark |
| 9 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 way | acl |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 good | advmod |
| 11 | both | both | DET | _ | 12 choices | det |
| 12 | choices | choice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 good | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 good | cop |
| 14 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 15 good | advmod |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 decide | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 way | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flip | gerund | a coin | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Flipping | a fair way | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | decide | to-infinitive | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | both choices | equally, good 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:054-solving-disagreements-calmly.lesson:17.
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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