Thinking cleverly about people, sentence 10
Fair means everyone gets what they need, which is not always the same thing.
Who acts: Fair, everyone, People · What happens: mean, get, need, not be · To what, where: same thing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking cleverly about people» 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 (Fair, everyone, People), 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 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 gets | nsubj |
| 4 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 means | ccomp |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 need | obj |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 need | nsubj |
| 7 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gets | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thing | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 thing | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 thing | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 thing | advmod |
| 12 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 15 thing | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 thing | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 thing | amod |
| 15 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gets | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Fair | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | get | present | everyone | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | need | present | People | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not is a | present | the same thing | always 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:060-reasoning-about-people.lesson:10.
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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