Thinking cleverly about people, sentence 5

Clever fairness tricks exist: when two children share a cake, one cuts and the other chooses, so the cutter has every reason to make the pieces equal.

Who acts: Clever fairness tricks, two children, one, other, cutter · What happens: exist, share, cut, choose, have, make · To what, where: cake, reason, pieces

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 (Clever fairness tricks, two children, one, other), 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	Clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tricks	amod
2	fairness	fairness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tricks	compound
3	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 exist	nsubj
4	exist	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 share	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 share	advmod
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 children	nummod
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 share	nsubj
9	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 exist	parataxis
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cake	det
11	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 share	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cuts	punct
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 cuts	nsubj
14	cuts	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 share	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 chooses	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 other	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 chooses	nsubj
18	chooses	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 cuts	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 has	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	23 has	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cutter	det
22	cutter	cutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 has	nsubj
23	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 share	conj
24	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 reason	det
25	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 has	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 make	mark
27	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 reason	acl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 pieces	det
29	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 make	obj
30	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 make	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 exist	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	exist	present	Clever fairness tricks			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	share	infinitive	two children	a cake		tree rules
3	cut	present	one			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	choose	present	the other			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	have	present	the cutter	every reason		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient
6	make	to-infinitive	the cutter not said here	the pieces	equal property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset piece=Product

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:5.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1. 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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