Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground, sentence 16
A dare like "say I'm the cleverest" turns a question into a fight about winning.
Who acts: dare, fight · What happens: say, be, turn, win · To what, where: question, fight · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground» 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 (dare, fight), 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 | 2 dare | det |
| 2 | dare | dare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turns | nsubj |
| 3 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 5 say | mark |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 dare | acl:relcl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 cleverest | nsubj |
| 7 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cleverest | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cleverest | det |
| 9 | cleverest | clever | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 say | ccomp |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 11 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 question | det |
| 13 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turns | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 fight | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fight | det |
| 16 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turns | obl |
| 17 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 18 winning | mark |
| 18 | winning | win | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 fight | acl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 turns | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | a dare not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | a dare = dare | clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | turn | present | a dare | a question | a fight | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent question=Theme into fight=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | win | gerund | a fight not said here | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:032-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground.lesson:16.
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. 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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