Friends who cling to a legend, sentence 17
Betting things on facts can lose you both the thing and the friend; checking together costs nothing.
Who acts: Betting, checking · What happens: bet, lose, check, cost · To what, where: things, facts, you, nothing
This is a sentence of the lesson «Friends who cling to a legend» of the myths 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 (Betting, checking), 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 | Betting | bet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 lose | csubj |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Betting | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 facts | case |
| 4 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Betting | obl |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 lose | aux |
| 6 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 lose | iobj |
| 8 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 10 thing | cc:preconj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 thing | det |
| 10 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 you | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 friend | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 friend | det |
| 13 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thing | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 costs | punct |
| 15 | checking | check | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 costs | csubj |
| 16 | together | together | ADV | _ | 15 checking | advmod |
| 17 | costs | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lose | parataxis |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 costs | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lose | 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 | bet | gerund | things | facts | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | lose | can | Betting | you | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | check | gerund | together property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | cost | present | checking | nothing | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme nothing=Value |
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:myths:031-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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