Thinking cleverly about people, sentence 14
When one person cuts and the other chooses, the cutter has a reason to cut fairly.
Who acts: one person, other, cutter · What happens: cut, choose, have · To what, where: reason
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 (one person, other, cutter), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 cuts | mark |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 person | nummod |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cuts | nsubj |
| 4 | cuts | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 has | advcl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 chooses | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 other | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 chooses | nsubj |
| 8 | chooses | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cuts | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 has | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cutter | det |
| 11 | cutter | cutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 has | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 reason | det |
| 14 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 has | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 cut | mark |
| 16 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 reason | acl |
| 17 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 16 cut | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 has | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | present | one person | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | choose | present | the other | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | present | the cutter | a reason | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | ||||
| 4 | cut | to-infinitive | the cutter not said here | a reason not said here | fairly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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:14.
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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