Is there one proper English? The big arguments, sentence 8

A double negative uses two negative words in one part of a sentence, like "I don't want no dinner"; it means "I don't want any dinner", not that you want dinner.

Who acts: double negative, people, it, you · What happens: use, not want, mean · To what, where: two negative words, one part, dinner · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Is there one proper English? The big arguments» of the language 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 (double negative, people, it, you), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 negative	det
2	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 negative	amod
3	negative	negative	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 uses	nsubj
4	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 words	nummod
6	negative	negative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 words	amod
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 uses	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 part	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 part	nummod
10	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 uses	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 sentence	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 sentence	det
13	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 part	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 want	punct
15	like	like	ADP	_	20 want	mark
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 want	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 want	nsubj
18	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 want	aux
19	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 want	advmod
20	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 uses	conj
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 dinner	det
22	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 want	obj
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 want	punct
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 means	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 means	nsubj
26	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 want	parataxis
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 want	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 want	nsubj
29	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 want	aux
30	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 want	advmod
31	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 means	ccomp
32	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	33 dinner	det
33	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 want	obj
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 want	punct
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 want	punct
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 want	advmod
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 want	mark
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 want	nsubj
39	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 want	parataxis
40	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 want	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 uses	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	use	present	a double negative	two negative words	one part of a sentence	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
2	not want in a quote	present · do-support	people	no dinner		tree rules
3	mean	present	it			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not want in a quote	present · do-support	people	any dinner		tree rules
5	not want	present	you	dinner		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dinner=Theme

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:language:020-is-there-one-proper-english.lesson:8.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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